Issues of Research Ethics in Developing World

Human subject research, ethics and the developing world.

Research-tool patents: issues for health in the developing world.

The patent system is now reaching into the tools of medical research, including gene sequences themselves. Many of the new patents can potentially preempt large areas of medical research and lay down legal barriers to the development of a broad category of products. Researchers must therefore consider redesigning their research to avoid use of patented techniques, or expending the effort to obt...

Ethical Issues in Teaching About Research Ethics

Ethical issues in the conduct of research is an important topic in research methods courses for graduate students in many Faculties of Education. The authors relate their experiences in teaching this topic over several semesters using a simulation of the well-known research into obedience by Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s. Students’ reactions to the use of the simulation at both emotional a...

Ethics issues in stem cell research.

Like most cutting edge medical technology, human stem cell research raises a number of difficult and important ethical issues and concerns, requiring potential benefits to be balanced against the need to protect the rights and welfare of citizens. Much of the debate involves research using embryonic stem (ES) cells, which in turns revolves around the moral status of the human embryo, and the le...

Ethics in psychiatric research: study design issues.

OBJECTIVE To identify and discuss ethical aspects of study design issues in psychiatric research. METHOD We conducted a literature review and conceptual analysis of study design in psychiatric research focusing on placebo, medication tapering and withdrawal (washout), and symptom provocation (challenge) designs. RESULTS While advances in the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric di...