Thinking about the ethics and regulation of human research has been parochial in the sense
that it typically has not drawn on comparison and contrast with other areas of human …

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 …

Should research ethics scholars, clinical investigators, and human research professionals
read a thick book by a moral philosopher on the foundations of research ethics? Absolutely …

'Research ethics' are" the moral principles guiding research, from its inception through to
completion and publication of results and beyond."'Ethical review offers guidelines …

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 …

Recently, I was at a meeting with more than 20 individuals from various disciplinary
backgrounds. In the midst of our planned discussion of the ethical, legal, and social issues …

Ethics and regulation of research with humans have coexisted in a somewhat uneasy
relationship in the United States for the past 60 years. Wartime atrocities committed by Nazi …

Radical challenges to the “conventional wisdom” in bioethics are salutary. They prompt
bioethicists to examine entrenched positions and principles that are taken for granted …

In 1974, the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, in
Galveston, sponsored the first of a long series of conferences on bioethics and 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 …