Controversial patient-consent proposal left out of research-ethics reforms

Need for ethics approval and patient consent in clinical research.

A key principle in clinical research is the need to obtain approval from a Research Ethics Committee before commencing a study, and then to obtain consent from each subject enrolled into the study. This tenet is highlighted in the Helsinki Declaration and reinforced in subsequent principles such as Good Clinical Practice/International Committee on Harmonisation. However, not all clinical studie...

Unwanted results: the ethics of controversial research.

Climate Virtues Ethics: A Proposal for Future Research

Climate virtue ethics points to the subjective/personal dimensions of climate ethics, which have been largely neglected by previous research. There is a lot of research from diverse fields that pertains to the cultural and the individual dimensions that come along with climate virtue ethics, but, as of yet, these dimensions have hardly been examined together. Future research on climate virtue e...

Research Ethics and Informed Consent : Not Applicable

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MEDICAL ETHICS Professional-patient relationships and informed consent

Four theoretical ethical perspectives on professional-patient relationships—autonomy, justice, virtue ethics, and the ethic of care—are surveyed, and some of their implications for the informed consent requirement in health care are sketched out. The practical issues of competence to consent, adequate information, and voluntariness are reviewed, and examples are given of the ways in which the t...