The chemical industry would be jeopardized by Rachel Carson's book. Certainly a detailed expose on the harmful effects of the highly successful pesticides would diminish the profits for these powerful chemical interests.
Because her book The Sea Around Us became a best seller, Rachel Carson was able to leave the Fish and Wildlife Service and pursue writing as her only profession. The next book she planned to write was on the ecology of man.
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.
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.
Plastic surgeons Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow of the University of Texas developed the first silicone breast implant in the early 1960's. Cases that could provide information on the long-term effects of silicone on the host. Ethical discussions has taken an increasingly practical turn in recent decades, and it has provided new ground for the emergence of research ethics in the 1990s. Recognition of the need for more ethical discussions in such domains as medicine and nursing has given rise to Bioethics.
A medical instrumentation company develops a patient-monitoring device. Calculations of its failure rate in different increments of time are made. Results indicate whether the product should be used, and consider the effects if it is or is not used.
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Joseph R. Herkert, ed. 1999. Social, Ethical and Policy Implications of Engineering: Selected Readings.
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