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Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Topics in Medical Ethics and the Responsible Conduct of Research

Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This course explores techniques for recognizing, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas often faced by healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers in today's highly regulated environment. The course includes guest lectur...
Year: 2006
URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/health-sciences-and-technology/hst-590-biomedical-engineering-seminar-series-topics-in-medical-ethics-and-responsible-conduct-in-research-fall-2005-spring-2006/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-11 10:18

Genetic Testing and Uses of Genetic Information I

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A physician and geneticist believes she has detected a predictive marker for Huntington`s disease and wants to conduct a project in which she would look at the genetic make up of families with a history of Huntington`s disease. This...
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/GeneticTestingJ2.htm

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-08 10:28

Gene Therapy

Authors: Korenman, Stanley G. ; Shipp, Allan C.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A clinical investigator has developed gene therapy which causes a permanent change in the patient`s immune cell-producing tissues....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/GeneTherapy.htm

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-08 10:24

Evidence-Based Research Ethics

Authors: Kalichman, Michael W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: American Journal of Bioethics
Abstract: The article focuses on the practice of evidence-based research ethics. It analyses the controversies of evidence-based medicine to serve as an analogy in the implementation of evidence-based research ethics. It paraphrases the defin...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/15265160902923457

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-01 14:45

Genetic Testing and Uses of Genetic Information II

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case is set several years in the future. A researcher has developed a method for detecting in utero genetic predisposition for about 200 genetic and congenital conditions. A major laboratory company wants to license the method ...
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/GeneticTestingJ3.htm

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-08 10:31

The Ethical dimensions of the biological sciences

Authors: Heitman, Elizabeth ; Reiser, Stanley Joel ; Bulger, Ruth Ellen
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is a collection of readings compiled during an eight-year experience in teaching a required ethics course to biological science graduate students at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Presented in a singl...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-10 14:36

Ethical considerations in bioengineering research

Authors: Smith, TJ ; Naurato, N
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Biomedical Science Instrumentation
Abstract: Biomedical science and engineering have made rapid advancements in the field of medicine over the past few decades. New ethical problems arising from this technology are influencing biomedical research more and more. It is disturbin...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12724954

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-09 10:48

Avoiding Cheap Grace : Medical Harm, Patient Safety, and the Culture(s) of Forgiveness

Authors: Berlinger, Nancy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the use of forgiveness as a tool for addressing the needs of all parties affected by medical errors. Responsibilities of a religious ethicist working on clinical issues; Explanation of the cheap grace concept; Implication...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:10

Responding to a Request for Information

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are a cytogeneticist who has spent several years studying the causes of human chromosome abnormalities. A couple contacts you and asks if you would be willing to perform and interpret a test which will show if all they children ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/reqinfo.aspx

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-08-13 10:14

If only AIDS were different!

Authors: Harris, John ; Holm, Soren
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the impact of the responses of Western European and American countries to the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Value of individual liberty among persons infected with AIDS; Moral development through lib...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:59

Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries From "Reasonable Availability" to "Fair Benefits"

Authors: English, Michael ; Koram, Kwando A. ; Clerk, Christine Alexandra ; Agbenyega, Tsiri ; Anto, Francis ; Setouhy, Maged El
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses moral standards for conducting clinical research in developing countries. Disagreement over the guidelines governing the availability of products developed during a study; Factors that could contribute to the exploitation ...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:01

Why Can't We Go On as Three?

Authors: Elliott, Carl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the prevalence of intersexuality in the United States. Role of genetics in intersexuality; Factors which influence an individual's sexual identity; Reference to arguments made by researchers regarding intersexuality; Find...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:43

Facing Carrie Buck

Authors: Lombado, Paul A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses ethical issues concerning the 1924 Virginia law authorizing eugenic sterilization of people designated as socially inadequate, based on the case of Carrie Buck. Information on the sterilization law; Examination conducted b...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 14:59

Bioethics education

Authors: Thornton, Barbara C. ; Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Explores possibilities for conducting bioethics education and evaluation of its progress. Hastings Center Conference on Bioethics, 1990; Six key areas for research curriculum; Strategies in evaluation; Three constituencies involved ...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:01

Researchers` Duty to Warn

Authors: Schrag, Brian
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The PI of an HIV/AIDS research project finds out that one of the positive participants is having unprotected sex with her unknowing boyfriend. He is faced with the dilemma of what to do since the interviews are supposed to be confid...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/researchersdutytowarn.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-08 12:40

Case studies in ethics and HIV research

Authors: Loue, Sana ; Pike, Earl C.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book presents a series of reflective topics and case studies surrounding HIV research and treatment. The authors explore issues of international research, the search for an HIV vaccine and ethical issues on how this research is...
Year: 2007

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-10-07 15:23

Case studies in public health ethics

Authors: Coughlin, Steven S.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume contains cases covering issues of privacy and confidentiality protection, informed consent in public health research, the ethics of randomized trials, vulnerable populations, genetic discrimination, AIDS prevention and t...
Year: 2009

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-10-07 15:22

Ethics and Public Health : Model Curriculum

Authors: Khan, Jeffrey ; Mastroianni, Anna ; Bayer, Ronald ; Bernheim, Ruth Gaare ; Jennings, Bruce ; Parker, Lisa S. ; Bonnie, Richard ; Alvarez, Hilary ; Thomas, Stephen ; McKieran, Laura C. ; Nieburg, Phillip ; Stull, John ; Thomas, James ; Shrader-Frechette, Kristin Sharon ; Heitman, Elizabeth ; Marshall, Patricia ; Gostin, Lawrence ; Garland, Michael ; Association of Schools of Public Health
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: This publication provides a series of teaching modules for integrating ethics education into public health education. The booklet presents a model curriculum of self-contained units or modules, each including an analysis of the et...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=782

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-10-17 14:51

Ethics and Research Assessing the Relative Roles of Genes and the Environment

Authors: DeCamp, Matthew ; Sugarman, Jeremy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article reviews some of the most pressing issues related to research design and methods for research on the interaction of genes and the environment, as well as from the application of research results, such as workplace geneti...
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1080/08989620490891359

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 17:44

Surplus Embryos, Nonreproductive Cloning, and the Intend/Foresee Distinction

Authors: FitzPatrick, William
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the moral difference between creating embryos expressly for medical research and conducting research on embryos that are left over from infertility treatments. Issue which emerged from the stem cell debate; Manner in whic...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:48

Uncertainty and the shaping of medical decisions

Authors: Beresford, E. B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Asserts that, while uncertainty can never be eliminated from clinical practice, physicians can at least come to terms with it. Identifies three sources of uncertainty affecting allocation of resources in a study involving Canadian p...
Year: 1991

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:10

The Ethics of Appropriating Evil

Authors: Plaisted, Dennis
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: A fascinating issue in applied ethics but one that has received little systematic attention is the issue of when it is permissible to appropriate the products of evil actions. Should medical researchers, for example, be permitted to...
Year: 2007
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Plaisted-The%20Ethics%20of%20Appropriating%20Evil.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-10 11:11

The ethics of genetic research on sexual orientation

Authors: Schuklenk, Udo ; Stein, Edward
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses ethical issues concerning genetic research on sexual orientation. Approaches toward scientific research on sexual orientation; Questionability of sexual orientation research in a value-neutral setup; Predicting sexual orie...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:51

From forgoing life support to aid-in-dying

Authors: Veatch, Robert M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the impact of technological and social revolution on the development of bioethics. Development of civil rights and its impact on the traditional Hippocratic ethics; Theologians responsible for introducing medical ethics t...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:03

Enough : The Failure of the Living Will

Authors: Fagerlin, Angela ; Schneider, Carl E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Elaborates the reasons behind the failure of living wills in the U.S. Definition of living wills; Contentions of proponents of living wills; Response of bioethicists to living wills; Effects of living wills on patient care....
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:46