Research into the best forms of conservation management or climate intervention is critically important, but carries its own risks impacts. Unless research requires a legal permit, evaluation whether benefits such outweigh left to ethics processes. We ask processes governing outdoor in Australia ensure that potential environmental impacts are addressed adequately. examine how considerations inc...

A widely accepted idea of clinical science is that it seeks the truth and that the knowledge acquired should be of benefit to patients. Therefore, as clinical researchers, we give response to two concerns deeply rooted in the human nature: The desire to know and the need to help someone suffering. However, the ideas and values that sustain clinical research, and take it to its most genuine obje...

In this paper the authors argue that research ethics committees (RECs) should not be paternalistic by rejecting research that poses risk to people competent to decide for themselves. However it is important they help to ensure valid consent is sought from potential recruits and protect vulnerable people who cannot look after their own best interests. The authors first describe the tragic deaths...

In response to the increasing need for research ethics expertise in low and middle income countries (LMICs), the NIH's Fogarty International Research Ethics Education and Curriculum Development Program has provided grants for the development of training programs in international research ethics for LMIC professionals since 2000. This collection of papers draws upon the combined expertise of Fog...

The practice of animal research is at once familiar and strange. On the one hand, almost everyone knows that it is a regular and widespread part of modern scientific and medical research. Indeed, the idea of being a “lab rat” or “guinea pig” is frequently invoked and readily understood in contemporary discourse. On the other hand, the vast majority of animal research is conducted outside public...