More Lenient Guidelines May Inadvertently Lead to a Scarcity of Consented Samples Recently, no area has contributed more and increasingly complex layers to the bioethics debate than research employing ...
Imagine a village ravaged by pneumonia and far from the nearest clinic. A couple in the village has lost one child to the disease when they are approached by a pharmaceutical company representative ...
A recent Pennsylvania Supreme court ruling, recognizing what it means to be a doctor, is not a solution but a problem. Authors in The New England Journal of Medicine beg to differ. In placing informed ...
Research that is integrated into ongoing clinical activities holds the potential to accelerate the generation of knowledge to improve the health of individuals and populations. Yet integrating ...
In the conversations most companies and regulators hold about "AI ethics," the term is used vaguely and not rooted in that ...
Informed consent is one of the principal values in healthcare, but it should include discussions about cost, said Jacqueline Glover, PhD, professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Center for ...
As public interest and expanded research in human genome editing grows, many questions remain about ethical, legal and social implications of the technology. People who are seriously ill may ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Starting near the end of World War II and continuing until the 1970s, the US government sponsored radiation experiments on human subjects. Some of these experiments were conducted ...
The center's clinical ethics personnel engage in scholarship focusing on the practice of clinical ethics consultation as well as on the challenging theoretical questions that arise in the clinical ...
In 1927, the ethicality of eugenics faced a major test in the U.S. Supreme Court. Eugenics won, and Carrie Buck was the victim. The historic Buck v. Bell case legitimized the forced sterilization of ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania (THE CONVERSATION) Starting near the ...