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How should communities be meaningfully engaged (if at all) when setting priorities for biomedical research? Perspectives from the biomedical research community
BackgroundThere is now rising consensus that community engagement is ethically and scientifically essential for all types of health research. Yet...
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Exploitation in Biomedical Research
Biomedical research on human subjects involves exposing individuals to risks and burdens for the benefit of others, and therefore raises concerns...
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Towards the multileveled and processual conceptualisation of racialised individuals in biomedical research
In this paper, we discuss the processes of racialisation on the example of biomedical research. We argue that applying the concept of racialisation...
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PTSD and Biomedical Research: Ethical Conundrums
This chapter describes why the biomedical model is inadequate and even unethical while proposing different models of research for PTSD and trauma...
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How Risky Can Biomedical Research Be?
One of the unmet challenges for risk–benefit assessment in biomedical research is whether there should be an upper limit of risk in non-beneficial...
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Biobanks for Biomedical Research: Evolution and Future
For more than two decades, in the era of post-genomics and personalized precision medicine, biobanks for biomedical research have successfully...
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Ethics Review of Biomedical Research in Uzbekistan: Policy and Program Gaps
We describe the national health research ethics review system of Uzbekistan and identify policy and program gaps that impede the protection of human...
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Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research in French Law
This chapter will address three key issues. Firstly, the field of conflicts of interest in biomedical research will be clarified, which concerns both...
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Knowledge, opinions and experiences of researchers regarding ethical regulation of biomedical research in Benin: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundEthics in biomedical research is still a fairly new concept in Africa. This work aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and experiences of...
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Introduction: Biomedical Research in One World: Current and Future Challenges
Biomedicine has sparked interest around the world as it may offer knowledge about fundamental biological processes as well as latest generation...
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ACCORD guideline for reporting consensus-based methods in biomedical research and clinical practice: a study protocol
BackgroundStructured, systematic methods to formulate consensus recommendations, such as the Delphi process or nominal group technique, among others,...
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Reductionist methodology and the ambiguity of the categories of race and ethnicity in biomedical research: an exploratory study of recent evidence
In this article, we analyse how researchers use the categories of race and ethnicity with reference to genetics and genomics. We show that there is...
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Ethical considerations for involving adolescents in biomedical HIV prevention research
BackgroundInvolvement of adolescent girls in biomedical HIV research is essential to better understand efficacy and safety of new prevention...
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Ethical regulation of biomedical research in Brazil: a quality improvement initiative
BackgroundQ-CEP ( Qualificação dos Comitês de Ética em Pesquisa que compõem o Sistema CEP/Conep ) is a nationwide project resulting from a partnership...
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A study of biomedical engineering student critical reflection and ethical discussion around contemporary medical devices
Due to the impact of biomedical technologies on human wellbeing, biomedical engineering presents discipline-specific ethical issues that can have...
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Moral imagination as an instrument for ethics education for biomedical researchers
Moral sensitivity and moral reasoning are essential competencies biomedical researchers have to develop to make ethical decisions in their daily...
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Making Biomedical Sciences publications more accessible for machines
With the rapidly expanding catalogue of scientific publications, especially within the Biomedical Sciences field, it is becoming increasingly...
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Prediction via Similarity: Biomedical Big Data and the Case of Cancer Models
In recent years, the biomedical field has witnessed the emergence of novel tools and modelling techniques driven by the rise of the so-called Big...
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Dissemination of Research Results
In this chapter, we sum up ethical reasons for (and available tools to) comprehensively disseminate research results. This chapter is structured as...
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The Ethics of Biomedical Practitioners: A Brief Historical Introduction
This chapter provides a brief introductory history of biomedical practitioners’ efforts at self-regulation though oaths, codes, and statements of...