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 …

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 …

Research ethics is a type of applied (or professional) ethics that addresses the questions,
dilemmas, and issues related to the ethical conduct of scientific research (see Professional …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines emanating from a fear that if
research is too closely connected to weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the …

When we are talking about research ethics, what are we talking about? What constitutes the
universe of issues in the responsible conduct of research? I will begin by exploring a …

Abstract Research Ethics: an Introduction focuses both on how Responsible Conduct of
Research (RCR) fits into the field of applied ethics and on procedures for making decisions …

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 …