The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and […]
(B191) Tuskegee′s TRUTHS
Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, […]
(B190) The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code
The atrocities committed by Nazi physicians and researchers during World War II prompted the development of the Nuremberg Code to define the ethics of modern medical experimentation utilizing human subjects. […]
(B189) Textbook of RESEARCH ETHICS Theory an Practice
This textbook provides a brief history of human experimentation and reviews various theories of ethics from which the principles and rules that govern this research are derived. All relevant international […]
(B188) RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH
Since the early 2000s, the field of Responsible Conduct of Research has become widely recognized as essential to scientific education, investigation, and training. At present, research institutions with public funding […]
(B187) Research Ethics
Medicine in the twenty-first century is increasingly reliant on research to guarantee the safety and efficacy of medical interventions. As a result, the need to understand the ethical issues that […]
(B186) Is There an Ethicist in the House?
In this timely book, Jonathan D. Moreno takes up some of the most important questions in clinical ethics today. Moreno’s view is that moral values emerge out of human experience, […]
(B184) RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH
When 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in a gene transfer study at the University of Pennsylvania, the national spotlight focused on the procedures used to ensure research participants’ safety and their […]
(B182) ETHICS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Challenging long-held theories of scientific rationality and remoteness, Kristin Shrader-Frechette argues that research cannot be ‘value free.’ Rather, any research will raise important moral issues for those involved, issues not […]
(B181) Ethics of the Use of Human Subjects In Research
Media headlines about research misconduct in American Universities have focused public attention on the dramatic ethical problems that can arise during the conductof research. In the current atmosphere of accountability, […]