Objective To estimate the proportion of participants in clinical trials who understand different
components of informed consent. Methods Relevant studies were identified by a systematic …

Investigators working both in syndemics, a field of applied health research with roots in
medical anthropology, and in the field of health and human rights recognise that upstream …

The Nuremberg Code 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be …

The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic
reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the US National …

Born out of the need to recover, analyze, and present physical evidence on thousands of
individual victims of large-scale human rights violations, multi-national, multi-disciplinary …

Today, at the dawn of a new century, genuine medical professionalism is in peril. Increasing-
ly, physicians encounter perverse financial incentives, fierce market competition, and the …

Sir—The inclusion in The Lancet over the past several years of a regular section entitled
Health and Human Rights has brought useful and timely pieces to a diverse audience, and …

Medical textiles is an emerging specialist field within the textile industry showing substantial
growth in the amount of research attention it has attracted over the past ten years and it is …

The present paper discusses the relevance and significance of the Hippocratic Oath to
contemporary medical ethical and moral values. It attempts to answer the questions about …

Widening disparities in health and human rights at a global level represent the dark side of
progress associated with escalation of economic and military exploitation and exponential …