Comments on research ethics and nursing student projects

Student Research Projects Inhibiting Factors from the Students Perspective

Background & Objective: Identifying the research barriers and assess the ability of students to use the university services and facilities is crucial to promote research activities. Present study was carried out to determine the inhibiting factors influencing the student's research projects from the view point of Yasuj University of Medical Sciences students in 2008. Materials & Methods: In thi...

Research Ethics for Studying Open Source Projects

The public visibility of Free and Open Source Software development has sparked interest in the research communities of business, social and computer sciences to use the projects as research subjects. This article tries to open a discussion about the implications of this interest, whether the Free and Open Source communities appreciate being under “surveillance” and how we can deal with the ethi...

Comments on Thompson: Research ethics for animal biotechnology

In these comments I will compare the functioning of DECs (dierexperimentencommissies) in The Netherlands, with the functioning of Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC) in the United States as described by Paul Thompson. Several aspects of the functioning of IACUCs in the Netherlands appear to be more or less similar to Thompson’s description of the situation in the United States, but there als...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.

Professional ethics: further comments.

Downie continues the debate over professional ethics in general, and medical ethics in particular, begun by P. Sieghart (Journal of Medical Ethics 1985 Sep; 11(3): 117-122), and furthered by Downie and Sieghart (JME 1986 Jun; 12(2): 64-66) and R. Gillon (JME 1986 Jun; 12(2): 59-60). Here Downie addresses Gillon's theses that a physician has a special obligation to his patients, that this oblig...