Seeking ethics committee approval for research can be challenging even for relatively simple studies occurring in single settings. Complicating factors such as multicentre studies and/or contentious research issues can challenge review processes, and conducting such studies internationally adds a further layer of complexity. This paper draws on the experiences of the LINNAEUS Collaboration, an ...

Title of dissertation: ARTISTIC AND ETHICAL VALUES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF NARRATIVES Alessandro Giovannelli, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jerrold Levinson. Department of Philosophy The ethical criticism of art has received increasing attention in contemporary aesthetics, especially with respect to the evaluation of narratives. The most prominent philosophical def...

Despite recent advances in HIV prevention and treatment, high HIV incidence persists among people who inject drugs (PWID). Difficult legal and political environments and lack of services for PWID likely contribute to high HIV incidence. Some advocates question whether any HIV prevention research is ethically justified in settings where healthcare system fails to provide basic services to PWID a...

In the last few years, medical education policy makers have expressed concern about changes in the ethical attitude and behavior of medical trainees during the course of their education. They claim that newly graduated physicians (MDs) are entering residency years with inappropriate habits and attitudes earned during their education. This allegation has been supported by numerous research on th...

In contrast with issues of consent capacity, financial capacity has received surprisingly little clinical or ethical attention in the psychiatric literature. Issues of financial capacity emerge frequently regarding clients with serious mental illness (SMI), and their resolution has practical and ethical significance for clients, their families, and mental health professionals. These issues incl...

BACKGROUND: Chemoprevention of malignancy is a new concept in clinical medicine, and little is written about the ethics of identifying and enrolling eligible subjects in chemoprevention clinical trials. METHODS: The authors identify the ethical issues raised in the conduct of clinical chemoprevention trials and review the ethical considerations that should guide clinical researchers in the desi...

Neural networks for NLP are becoming increasingly complex and widespread, there is a growing concern if these models responsible to use. Explaining helps address the safety ethical concerns essential accountability. Interpretability serves provide explanations in terms that understandable humans. Additionally, post-hoc methods after model learned generally model-agnostic. This survey provides c...

OBJECTIVE The development of genomic approaches to prenatal testing such as whole genome and exome sequencing offers the potential for a better understanding of prenatal structural anomalies in the fetus and ultimately for improved patient care and more informed reproductive decision making. In addition to the scientific and clinical challenges of achieving this, the introduction of new reprodu...

Introduction A paediatric surgeon not only has the responsibility to care for the young and developing patient but equally has the duty to counsel and care for the concerned parents—and sometimes their broader family members, who all live within a very specific cultural milieu with its value systems and demands. Besides surgical skills, therefore, a paediatric surgeon needs to be aware of the p...

BACKGROUND Health research is increasingly being conducted on a global scale, particularly in the developing world to address leading causes of morbidity and mortality. While research interest has increased, building scientific capacity in the developing world has not kept pace. This often leads to the export of human tissue (defined broadly) from the developing to the developed world for analy...