Justice for Children in Bangladesh: Legal and Ethical Issues

Drug trials in children: ethical, legal, and practical issues.

Technical limitations, logistic challenges, and ethical constraints no longer provide excuses for not conducting well-designed studies of therapeutic agents in children. In fact, to not do so is difficult to defend ethically. Clinical trials in children are feasible and essential for safe and effective use of medications in children. The time is long past when drugs with therapeutic potential i...

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

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 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...