Research Ethics: Deontological Perspectives

Deontological foundations for medical ethics?

Gillon outlines the principles of the deontological, or duty-based, group of moral theories in one of a series of British Medical Journal articles on the philosophical foundations of medical ethics. He differentiates between monistic theories, such as Immanuel Kant's, which rely on a single moral principle, and pluralistic theories, such as that of W.D. Ross, which rely on several principles t...

Religion, reason, controversies and perspectives in clinical and research ethics.

“This correspondence is now closed”: but in medical ethics the traditional editorial fiat is often less easy to issue. The quality of argument and counter-argument demonstrated by so many contributors to the Journal of Medical Ethics illustrates not so much that they are undefeated because they have gone on trying, but the existential importance, for them and for many of their readers, of the c...

Fundamentals of research ethics--international and regional perspectives: welcome address.

I would like to welcome Professor Pirzada Qasim, the Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University, and all the delegates and thank you all for participating in this conference Fundamentals of Research Ethics – International and Regional Perspectives. I am especially grateful to the foreign participants , who came despite discouragement by their governments. I am confident that you will appreciate how ...

Perspectives on Applied Ethics

Ethics in Clinical Research

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