One plausible way to structure a narrative about the origin and development of medical
ethics is to see much of it as a commentary on the ethical issues that have arisen in …

Ethical guidelines for conducting clinical trials have historically been based on a perceived
therapeutic obligation to treat and benefit the patient-participants. The origins of this ethical …

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 …

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 …

Ethics is 'a generic term for various ways of understanding and examining the moral
life'(Beauchamp and Childress, 2001: 1). Research ethics is its application to the conduct of …

The mission of public health is “assuring conditions in which people can be healthy,”
through its core functions of “assessment, policy development, and assurance”(IOM, 1988 …

Background The generation of evidence is integral to the work of public health and health
service providers. Traditionally, ethics has been addressed differently in research projects …

Research ethics has played a crucial part in health research (Israel 2016; Tolich 2016a;
Christians 2018; Gray 2018; Banks 2019; Portney 2020). Due to many abusive events in the …

Medical research involving human subjects raises complex ethical, legal and social issues.
Investigators sometimes find that their obligations with respect to a research project come …

The ethical analysis of research with human subjects has been greatly developed over the
last 20 years, with input from researchers and statisticians as well as philosophers. That all …