For decades, ethical codes, guidelines and regulations for research involving humans have
held that research must have social value in order to be ethical. The idea was present in the …

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Belmont Report—one of the foundational
documents of modern research ethics—this article reviews the ethical debate about the …

In her critique of research ethics, Rosamond Rhodes identifies at least three aspects of the
field that she believes require significant rethinking and reform (Rhodes 2005). Each is part …

IT has long been accepted within research ethics that clinical research involving human
subjects is only ethical if it holds out the prospect of producing socially valuable knowledge …

Many guidelines and commentators endorse the view that clinical research is ethically
acceptable only when it has social value, in the sense of collecting data which might be …

Like many trained in philosophy, we greatly value the work of those scholars with the
courage to espouse contrarian views, particularly when the ideas in dispute lie at the very …

Background International documents on ethical conduct in clinical research have in common
the principle that potential harms to research participants must be proportional to anticipated …

Clinical research attempts to address a relatively straightforward, and important challenge:
how do we determine whether one medical intervention is better than another, whether it …

The idea that research with human participants should benefit society has become firmly
entrenched in various regulations, policies, and guidelines, but there has been little in-depth …

Given the diversity of what we bring along with us, some commentators have seized the
intended thrust of my remarks, others have not. So, let me try again to make my position …