Abstract
In the spring of 2015, 11 years after a mentally ill young man named Dan Markingson stabbed himself to death in an industry-sponsored drug study, officials at the University of Minnesota suspended recruitment of subjects into drug trials in its Department of Psychiatry. University officials agreed to act only after a scathing investigation by Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor found damning evidence of coerced recruitment, inadequate clinical care, superficial research oversight, a web of serious, disturbing conflicts of interest, and a pattern of misleading public statements by university officials aimed at deflecting scrutiny. In this article, I examine the larger institutional factors leading up to Markingson’s suicide and prevented corrective action for so long.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 65-79 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Accountability in Research |
Volume | 24 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 17 2017 |
Keywords
- Conflict of interest
- human subjects ethics
- human subjects regulation and oversight
- informed consent
- misconduct in research
- organizational and institutional ethics
- research ethics
- research ethics in university contexts
- research on the mentally ill
- vulnerable populations