Guiding Ethical Principles in Engineering Biology Research

Ethical principles and processes guiding dialysis decision-making.

When the US Congress created the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program in 1972, it gave physicians the responsibility of determining which patients were "appropriate" for dialysis. Congress provided no guidance on who should be selected or how. Only five years later, Dr. Belding Scribner, the father of chronic dialysis, noted that there was a need for a "deselection committee" because virtuall...

Engineering and ethical perspectives in synthetic biology

Synthetic biology has emerged as an exciting and promising new research field, garnering significant attention from both the scientific community and the general public. This interest results from a variety of striking features: synthetic biology is a truly interdisciplinary field that engages biologists, mathematicians, physicists and engineers; its research focus is applied; and it has enormo...

Balancing Ethical Principles in Emergency Medicine Research

This paper attempts to provide a broader view into the ethical issues surrounding the field of emergency medicine (EM) research. It starts from defining bioethically relevant features of EM and presents this field in the context of different models of health care provider-patient relationship. The paper also provides a short overview of the "post-Nuremberg" evolution of the main international r...

Guiding principles in conceptualisation

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Ethical research in psychology: revised ethical principles for conducting research with human participants.