The Ramsey-McCormick Debate
Paul Ramsey und Richard McCormick have exchanged views on the issue of the ethical acceptability of research conducted on children for the benefit of others in a number of publications; cf. McCormick 1974, 1976; Ramsey 1976, 1977. Maio 2002 provides a good survey of the Ramsey-McCormick debate.
McCormick, Richard A. (1974): Proxy Consent in the Experimentation Situation. In: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 18(1), 2-20.
McCormick, Richard A. (1976): Experimentation in Children: Sharing Sociality. In: Hastings Center Report 6(6), 41-46.
Ramsey, Paul (1976): The enforcement of morals: nontherapeutic research on children. In: Hastings Center Report 6(4), 21-30.
Ramsey, Paul (1977): Children as Research Subjects: A Reply. In: Hastings Center Report 7(2), 40-42.
Maio, Giovanni (2002): Ethik der Forschung am Menschen. Zur Begründung der Moral in ihrer historischen Bedingtheit. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: frommann-holzboog (Medizin und Philosophie 6).