An Empirical Ethics Agenda for Psychiatric Research Involving Prisoners

Enhancement, ethics and society: towards an empirical research agenda for the medical humanities and social sciences

For some time now, bioethicists have paid close attention to issues associated with 'enhancement'; specifically, the appropriate use and regulation of substances and artefacts understood by some to improve the functioning of human bodies beyond that associated with 'normal' function. Medical humanities scholars (aside from philosophers and lawyers) and social scientists have not been frequent p...

Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015/2016 wave of migration have been exposed to war conditions in their country of origin, survived a dangerous journey, and often struggled with negative reception in transit and host countries. The mental health consequence of such forced migration experiences is named the Ulysses syndrome. Policies regarding the right to residency ca...

The ethics of biomedical research on prisoners.

Introduction Over the past several years little has been reported regarding the ethics of biomedical research among prisoners. It appears that, following a spate of reports about egregious transgressions of canons of ethics by clinicians engaged in research in prisons, regulations put in place may have solved the problems. However, the dictum of a Persian Prince who is credited with advising a ...

Attractiveness in Buyer-Supplier Relationships: An Agenda for Empirical Research

number 011-0903 Attractiveness in Buyer-Supplier Relationships: An Agenda for Empirical Research M.Sc. (Tech.) Outi Kettunen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland, [email protected], tel. +358407601843 M.Sc. (Tech.) Anna Aminoff, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI02044 VTT, Finland, [email protected], tel. +358405917979 M.S...

An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences