Few could disagree with the starting premise in,“Strangers at the Benchside: Research
Ethics Consultation”(Cho et al. 2008). Over the past 40 years, the efforts for addressing the …

Continuing failures of human subjects protection have prompted calls for increased
governmental regulation, additional oversight, more effective training for investigators in the …

The recent emergence of research ethics consultation services across the country is a
welcome phenomenon. Transformations in the practice of clinical research are proliferating …

common notion about ethics evaluation. One of the challenges that discussions of ethics
face is that of overcoming the assumption, integral to the modern conceptualization of the …

CONCLUSION Research is complex and continually evolving; ethical dilemmas can arise
and are arising at all stages. All stakeholders can agree on the ends, that ethical dilemmas …

Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those
involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than …

Strangers at the Benchside have: a reasonable amount of substantive knowledge in the field
in which investigators seeking consults are working; practical experience in applying moral …

As medicine and science advance, new ethical questions emerge. Over time, deliberation
and analysis result in a somewhat settled approach to a problem. Often the settled approach …

BACKGROUND The RECS at JHSPH started in March 2005. As background, The Johns
Hopkins University received funds as part of an Office for Human Research …

When is clinical research ethical? The difficulty in answering this question lies in the dual
nature of research on human subjects, which yields two somewhat conflicting sets of …