Bioethicists frequently call for empirical researchers to engage participants and community
members in their research, but don't themselves typically engage community members in …

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

Research practices and regulation aimed at addressing environmental contamination have
shifted dramatically in academic and policy arenas, due to challenges from social …

Harms and risks to groups and third-parties can be significant in the context of research,
particularly in data-centric studies involving genomic, artificial intelligence, and/or machine …

Research on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of human genomics has
devoted significant attention to the research ethics issues that arise from genomic science as …

The social context of research matters, though Gordon and colleagues have failed to
connect all the dots. In “Social Contexts Influence Ethical Considerations of Research” …

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 …

Accepting the proposal by Ravitsky and Wilfond (2006) to adopt a “result-evaluation
approach” would likely increase the number of studies that returned genetic test results to …

Federally funded research on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genomics
includes a programmatic charge to consider policy-relevant questions and to communicate …

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are set up to address regulatory and compliance issues
involved in research, but not the broad social implications of research protocols. In fact, the …