Environmental health and justice and the right to research: institutional review board denials of community-based chemical biomonitoring of breast milk
| Autor: | Dvera I. Saxton, Lorraine Eckstein, Pamela Miller, Phil Brown, Vi Waghiyi, David O. Carpenter, Samarys Seguinot-Medina |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Community-Based Participatory Research
Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis education Community-based participatory research Context (language use) Pilot Projects Right-to-know Environmental health ethics Social Justice Environmental health IRBs Medicine Humans Justice (ethics) PCBs Breastmilk Environmental justice health care economics and organizations Research ethics Milk Human Alaska Natives business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Status Disparities Institutional review board 13. Climate action Biomonitoring Indians North American Commentary Right to know Organochlorine pesticides Environmental Pollutants Female Erratum business Environmental Health Alaska Environmental Monitoring Ethics Committees Research |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Health |
| ISSN: | 1476-069X |
| Popis: | Recently, conflicts and challenges have emerged regarding environmental justice and research ethics for some indigenous communities. Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) responded to community requests for breast milk biomonitoring and conceived the Breast Milk Pilot Study (BMPS). Despite having community support and federal and private funding, the BMPS remains incomplete due to repeated disapprovals by the Alaska Area IRB (Institutional Review Board). In this commentary, we explore the consequences of years of IRB denials, in terms of health inequalities, environmental justice, and research ethics. We highlight the greater significance of this story with respect to research in Alaska Native communities, biomonitoring, and global toxics regulation. We offer suggestions to community-based researchers conducting biomonitoring projects on how to engage with IRBs in order to cultivate reflective, context-based research ethics that better consider the needs and concerns of communities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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