Beyond procedural ethics: Foregrounding questions of justice in global health research ethics training for students

Beyond procedural ethics: Foregrounding questions of justice in global health research ethics training for students

Interest in global health is growing among students across many disciplines and fields of study. In response, an increasing number of academic programmes integrate and promote opportunities for international research, service or clinical placements. These activities raise a range of ethical issues and are associated with important training needs for those who participate. In this paper, we focu...

Global health ethics for students.

As a result of increased interest in global health, more and more medical students and trainees from the 'developed world' are working and studying in the 'developing world'. However, while opportunities to do this important work increase, there has been insufficient development of ethical guidelines for students. It is often assumed that ethics training in developed world situations is applica...

Ethics, collective health, qualitative health research and social justice.

The scientific field is characterized by the disputes about the delimitation of the field problems, methods and theories that can be considered scientific. The recognition that it is not neutral, that a researcher is a moral subject, and its practices are moral ones, entail that moral reflections, that is, ethics, should be a core process of every researcher. Therefore ethics is not a heteronom...

Imperialism, research ethics and global health.

Beyond Helsinki: a vision for global health ethics.

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