Ethical and legal issues

Nanotechnology: legal and ethical issues

K E Y W O R D S nanotechnology, regulation, risk, ethical issues DOI: 10.1515/emj-2016-0005 Corresponding author: Agnieszka Baran Bialystok University of Technology Faculty of Management e-mail: [email protected] received: 19 January, 2016 accepted: 29 February, 2016

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Legal and ethical issues in fetal surgery

Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychotherapy

INTRODUCTION Psychotherapy is defined differently by various authors. However, the most complete definition of psychotherapy as given by Wolberg defines it as “a treatment, by psychological means, of problems of an emotional nature in which a trained person deliberately establishes a professional relationship with the patient with the objective of removing, modifying or retarding existing sympt...

Legal and ethical issues in research

Legal and ethical issues form an important component of modern research, related to the subject and researcher. This article seeks to briefly review the various international guidelines and regulations that exist on issues related to informed consent, confidentiality, providing incentives and various forms of research misconduct. Relevant original publications (The Declaration of Helsinki, Belm...

Ethical and legal issues in genetic epidemiology.

Since the discovery of recombinant DNA techniques in the 1970s, the identification of diseaserelated genes has rested on epidemiologic data (1, 2). The implications of gene identification for research subjects, for the transition to clinical practice, for clinical practice itself, and, finally, for society at large form the basis of this review. The ethical issues inherent in genetic testing ha...