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1. Children as Research Subjects

   In 1975 the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (the National Commission) began its...

   Robert J. Levine in Children And Health Care

   Chapter 1989
   

2. Doctors and Their Patients, Patients and Their Doctors

   The patient-physician relationship is considered in its historical perspectives and the roots of the relationship are briefly sketched. Several...

   Erich H. Loewy in Textbook of Medical Ethics

   Chapter 1989
   

3. Medical ethics in Britain

   This paper describes ‘the medical ethics scene’ in Britain. After giving a brief account of the structure of British medical ethics and of the roles...

   Raanan Gillon in Theoretical Medicine

   Article 01 October 1988

4. Utilitarians Among the Optimists

   To paraphrase one of my childhood serials, can a Utilitarian from a small cloistered discipline find happiness on a review board of worldly research...

   William Ruddick in Moral Theory and Moral Judgments in Medical Ethics

   Chapter 1988
   

5. Ethics Committees: Talking the Captain Through Troubled Waters

   Good navigation is a matter of using a lot of information to make a lot of decisions. You need an abundance of technical knowledge about your ship...

   Nancy M. P. King in The Physician as Captain of the Ship

   Chapter 1988
   

6. The Search for Universality in the Ethics of Human Research: Andrew C. Ivy, Henry K. Beecher, and the Legacy of Nuremberg

   The first ethical requirement of human studies is that of scientific excellence. Meaningful truth must be sought. This means three things: a worthy...

   Kenneth L. Vaux, Stanley G. Schade in The Use of Human Beings in Research

   Chapter 1988
   

7. The Physician And Technological Change

   Physicians derive their authority from at least two sources. Their moral authority is based on the obligation to place patient benefit above...

   Robert M. Cook-Deegan in The Physician as Captain of the Ship

   Chapter 1988
   

8. Justifications and procedures for implementing Institutional Review boards in business organizations

   The present paper describes a number of ethical quandaries facing the implementors of motivational interventions in organizational settings. A...

   Robert A. Giacalone, Paul Rosenfeld in Journal of Business Ethics

   Article 01 July 1987

9. Reviews

   Loretta Kopelman, Frank H. Marsh, ... Christian Probst in Theoretical Medicine

   Article 01 October 1983

10. Biomedical Knowledge: Progress and Priorities

    In the present essay I am going to begin with some comments on the essays of Professors Weissmann [24] and Wartofsky [22]. I will then go on to...

    Kenneth F. Schaffner in New Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences

    Chapter 1982
    

11. Clinical Investigations in Develo** Countries: Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Promotion of Research and the Protection of Human Rights

    An essay of this sort presents a problem of scope. Legal systems are essentially parochial. Each relates to a particular country and its...

    William J. Curran in The Law-Medicine Relation: A Philosophical Exploration

    Chapter 1981
    

12. Justice and Human Research

    Since the Nuremberg Code, two ethical principles have become firmly established as a basis for research using human subjects. ‘Respect for persons’...

    Karen Lebacqz in Justice and Health Care

    Chapter 1981
    

13. DES: Ten Points of Controversy

    My brief ethical analysis of the DES case will not provide answers, but will be an effort to show more clearly why the case is controversial and what...

    Joan Hirsch Holfzman in The Custom-Made Child?

    Chapter 1981
    

14. The Teaching of Ethics in American Higher Education: An Empirical Synopsis

    An important part of the work of the Teaching of Ethics project was the collection of information about activities in this area at the college and...

    in Ethics Teaching in Higher Education

    Chapter 1980