While the Stanford model of research ethics consultation has many strengths, we believe it
lacks an essential component: the inclusion of research participant and family perspectives …

In “Strangers at the Benchside: Research Ethics Consultation”, Cho and colleagues (2008)
present Stanford's “hybrid” approach to research ethics consultation. This consultation …

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 …

In a broad sense, I agree with the conclusions of the target article by Christine Grady and
colleagues (2015),“Broad Consent for Research with Biological Samples: Workshop …

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

BACKGROUND While great strides have been made in determining ethical guidelines for
conducting medical research in adults, the situation remains much less clear for children …

Ethics education is firmly integrated into medical school curricula. Every US allopathic
medical school offers at least one ethics course, and many schools require at least one for …

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 …

Although bioethicists and institutions have long provided ethics consultations on an
individual basis, research ethics consultation is still a relatively new concept1 as an …

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 …