A module meant to stimulate discussion among researchers about the ethical issues that arise in conducting research with human subjects who are mentally ill - including topics such as consent, privacy, conflict of interest.
A training module using scenarios and other methods to facilitate discussion about the key ethical issues that arise in doing research with human biological material.
Index of the contents of the NBAC report Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants Report, Recommendations, and Commissioned Papers.
Janlori Goldman and Angela Choy Georgetown University. This paper describes how the public's fear and anxiety over the loss of privacy and confidentiality can threaten the research initiatives meant to benefit them. The federal government, researchers, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), and research institutions will need to work together to provide strong privacy and confidentiality protections to build public trust and encourage continued participation in research.
C.K. Gunsalus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This paper was commissioned to examine whether NBAC should recommend unifying federal oversight of federal and private human subjects research under a single government office such as the Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR).
Erica Heath, Independent Review Consulting, Inc. NBAC has requested information about the philosophical and practical issues related to the role of independent institutional review boards (IRBs) in the current medical research community. This paper provides a working definition of independent IRBs, describes their role within a broader framework of protections for human subjects and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of independent IRBs.
A teaching module using scenarios and other methods to stimulate discussion of the ethics of doing research with people in various stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
A teaching module using scenarios and other methods to stimulate discussion of the ethics research with vulnerable populations such as children, mentally ill subjects, and subjects with dementia.
What should be the limits of risk and suffering to patient subjects in studies of the efficacy of treatments for major psychological illness such as clinical depression?
A study is to be conducted with students in grades 4 - 8, the principal agrees to allow students to participate in the study, but says they do not need the parents' permission.
Blood samples from an experiment on preterm births are frozen. Another study is to be conducted and using these samples would save time and money. Do the mothers need to be asked for consent again?
A medical geneticist is working to collect blood samples from the Yuchi to study a possible natural immunity to leukemia. The Yuchi do not want to give any more blood; the geneticist decides to lie to them to convince them to give more samples.
During an interview with a research participant, John, a licensed psychologist,discovers a participant who is HIV positive is having unprotected sex with her boyfriend who is not aware of her HIV status.
Dr. Lang is researching the use of sterile needle exchange programs and discovers that the participants showed higher HIV infection rates than nonparticipants.
Part I and Part II,Explanation of Federal Regulations (45CFR46) on research with human subjects.
Reading Questions for the Federal Regulations on research with human subjects.
New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence;trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; professional responsibility; public safety; worker safety;laboratory safety; design process; engineering competence;environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical;conflict of interest; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; research misconduct; falsification and fabrication; plagiarism; authorship; animals in scientific research.
D. Lin and M. C. Loui, "Taking the byte out of cookies: privacy, consent, and the Web," Computers and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 39-51, June 1998.
Other keywords for this: database confidentiality; corporate ethics; computers and privacy.