What is genetic engineering? How is it carried out and what can it do? What is cancer and can genetic engineering provide a cure? Why is AIDS so difficult to […]

Institutional Review Board Member Handbook is designed to give IRB members the information they need to protect the rights and welfare of research subjects in a way that is both […]

Clinical research professionals need a direct, practical guide to working together to protect human research subjects. This book is a reference for research sponsors, investigators, and IRB members, with documents […]

Published in partnership with the Applied Research Ethics Association (ARENA), this study guide companion to Institutional Review Board: Management and Function, Second Edition facilitates the application of knowledge acquired from […]

The sixth edition of the Manual for Research Ethics Committees is an unique compilation of legal and ethical guidance that is invaluable for members of research ethics committees, researchers involved […]

This book is designed as an instructional manual that gives Institutional Review Board (IRB) members and administrators the information they need to run an efficient and effective system of protecting […]

After thirty years, Medical Ethics has matured to where a collection of core writings in the field is now possible. There is even a danger that some classic articles will […]

From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do […]

In 1932, the U.S. Public Health  Service recruited 623 African  American men from Macon County, Alabama, for a study of “the effects of untreated syphilis in the Negro male.” For […]