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Huge variation in obtaining ethical permission for a non-interventional observational study in Europe
BackgroundEthical approval (EA) must be obtained before medical research can start. We describe the differences in EA for an pseudonymous,...
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The New Role of Ethics Committees in Emergency Use of Unproven Interventions Outside Research
Recent ethics guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) on monitored emergency use (MEURI) state that, during a public health emergency,...
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Introduction
The Philosophy and Medicine series, to which this book contributes, is dedicated to the project of gaining clarity about how the traditional...
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Institutional Approaches to Research Integrity in Ghana
Research misconduct (RM) remains an important problem in health research despite decades of local, national, regional, and international efforts to...
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Data Alteration
Data alteration requires consideration of: what are data, when should they be available and what is their quality. Alteration may be intended or...
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Ethics of HIV cure research: an unfinished agenda
BackgroundThe pursuit of a cure for HIV is a high priority for researchers, funding agencies, governments and people living with HIV (PLWH). To date,...
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Philosophy and Ethical Advisory Boards in German Medicine
Medical Ethics advisory boards are globally distributed but influenced by different traditions. In Germany this tradition follows on the one hand the...
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Clinical Ethics Consultation in Germany: History, Current Status and Models of Training
In Germany, clinical ethics consultation (CEC) has developed over the past 20 years into a well-established professional service, particularly in...
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Towards a Governance Framework for Brain Data
The increasing availability of brain data within and outside the biomedical field, combined with the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to...
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Military Medicine Research: Incorporation of High Risk of Irreversible Harms into a Stratified Risk Framework for Clinical Trials
Clinical trials aim to minimise participant risk and generate new clinical knowledge for the wider population. Many military agencies are now...
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Robert Veatch’s early career in bioethics, contributions to the field, and career at Georgetown University
In this essay, I describe Bob Veatch’s career from the perspective of a colleague and friend. Bob and I started our professional careers at the same...
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Right to Try (See Compassionate Use; Pre-approval Access)
Right to try is the name given to legislation in the United States that allows terminally ill patients to use experimental drugs that are not yet...
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Ethical Issues in Community-Based, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Forms of Research
This chapter explores ethical issues in community-based, participatory, and action-oriented forms of research (CBPAR). These approaches to research...
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Clinical Ethics in Historical Context, Part III
As we saw in the preceding chapter, the highly questionable theory of eugenics began to fall out of favor in the United States in the 1930s, for two...
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Ethical and practical considerations for HIV cure-related research at the end-of-life: a qualitative interview and focus group study in the United States
BackgroundOne of the next frontiers in HIV research is focused on finding a cure. A new priority includes people with HIV (PWH) with non-AIDS...
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What information and the extent of information to be provided in an informed assent/consent form of pediatric drug trials
BackgroundThis study aimed to determine the elements and the extent of information that child participants and their parents would like to read in an...
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Empirische Ethik, Kontextsensitivität und Kontextualismus
Albert W. Musschenga ist ein niederländischer Philosoph, Prof. emeritus der Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, der sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten...
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The Exclusion of Vulnerable Populations from Research
What do ethics codes and guidelines tell us about who is vulnerable in research? To what are they vulnerable? And how might this vulnerability be...
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The role of science granting councils in promoting ethics in research and innovation: strategies used by selected African SGCs in promoting ethics in research and innovation
The Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Africa aims to strengthen the capacities of selected science granting councils (SGCs) in...
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Rank Has Its Privileges: Explaining Why Laboratory Safety Is a Persistent Challenge
Environmental, health, and safety management systems have become common in research settings to improve laboratory safety through systematic...