The authors of the target articles in this issue add new perspectives to decades-old debates
about payment for research participation: Under what particular circumstances is payment …

Paying research participants is a widespread, long-standing, ethically acceptable, and
perennially fraught practice. Although data are limited, payment is offered to participants in …

The field of bioethics has had a long preoccupation with payment for research participation.
The end result of these debates has largely been consensus that there is nothing ethically …

Offers of payment made in exchange for research participation are common. And yet they
are often regarded as, at best, a" necessary evil." This is odd. In most nonresearch contexts …

Christine Grady presents a cogent defense of payments to research participants. She
convincingly argues that payments do not necessarily compromise the quality of a person's …

The exact nature of the payments Christine Grady (2001) has in mind in her defense of the
ethical acceptability of paying participants in research is critical. Her first and concluding …

with care in the past. To import commercial considerations into this already fragile
relationship would be to court the risk of serious exploitation. There are other dangers in …

Payments are different things to different people. To a homeless person, a guarantee of
shelter and food is payment; to someone fighting a disease, treatment that might result in …

Like many trained in philosophy, we greatly value the work of those scholars with the
courage to espouse contrarian views, particularly when the ideas in dispute lie at the very …

Forty years ago, the Belmont Report counseled that a “systematic, nonarbitrary analysis of
risks and benefits” is vital to ensuring the ethical appropriateness of research with human …