In Week 7 Unit 14, you had an opportunity to post a narrated PowerPoint presentation of your bioethical issue and provide a peer review of your classmates' work. In Week 7 Unit 15, you are asked to re

Running Head: PRISONERS DILEMMA 1

Prisoners Dilemma

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Should Prisoners be Allowed to Participate in Research?

The power inequalities among researchers, type of supervised workers, and prisoners, as well as the consequences this would have on acquiring permission from the participants to research, are the key ethical hurdles that investigators must overcome and the difficulties in maintaining the security and dignity of participants in the study who are incarcerated to tackle these questions, one basic stage might be to establish open and unambiguous methods for ethical public health, which should have been guided by several organizations, especially inmates, law enforcement officers, and investigators themselves (Brosens, 2019). Prisoners indicated that they participated since they had limited options once detained or are just unhappy with both the therapy options provided by the facility. If the existing medication is inadequate, some convicts may believe that they have no option except to volunteer in research to acquire care (Edelstein, 2019). While it is tempting to think of this kind of dilemma, deciding between participating in a study and preceding proper treatment as intimidation (corcesion), we genuinely think it is far more factual and meaningful to shape the ethical considerations to provide opportunities for exploitation with the need to guarantee those research findings have such a risk management proportion in the context of the study. On framing the ethical challenge as exploitation, it more correctly reflects whatever happens in the interactive engagement between investigator and research (Gansterer & Hartl, 2021).

To some extent, weighing the pros and cons resolves exploitation, but compulsion could still exist in prisoner research. Although some of the volunteers seemed desperate, quite terrified, or excessively frightened more about potential repercussions of the conditions if it is not cured, they were also not pushed into partaking in preclinical research methods (Huang, Cauley & Wagner, 2017). They claim that when inmates are given the tough decision to participate in the research or forego appropriate treatment, it is not coercion because they are not blackmailed with worsening their situation if they refuse to take part. According to the ethical theory, coercion represents deontological ethics, and exploitation represents virtue ethics.

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Brosens, D. (2019). Prisoners' participation and involvement in prison life: Examining the possibilities and boundaries. European Journal of Criminology, 16(4), 466-485.

Edelstein, J. (2019). The Prisoner Dilemma: A Bioethical Analysis of the Access to Healthcare of Incarcerated Populations. Temple University.

Gansterer, M., & Hartl, R. F. (2021). The Prisoners' Dilemma in collaborative carriers' request selection. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 29(1), 73-87.

Huang, E., Cauley, J., & Wagner, J. K. (2017). Barred from better medicine? Reexamining regulatory barriers to the inclusion of prisoners in research. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 4(1), 159-174.