LEISHMANIASIS ENTOMOLOGICAL FIELD STUDIES: ETHICAL ISSUES

Challenge studies of human volunteers: ethical issues.

There is a long history of medical research that involves intentionally infecting healthy people in order to study diseases and their treatments. Such research-what might be called "human challenge studies"-are an important strand of much current research-for example, in the development of vaccinations. The many international and national guidelines about the proper conduct of medical research ...

ETHICAL ISSUES IN MEDICAL STATISTICS

Medical statistics (biostatistics), as a vital essential part of modem life, does raise some fundamental ethical issues. Surprisingly, this aspect seems to have been totally ignored by books on medical ethics. This paper discusses how the statistical aspects affect the ethics. The relation between biostatistics and medical research is explored. All stages of a medical research exercise are ...

Ethical Issues

Ethical issues faced by field primatologists: asking the relevant questions.

Field primatologists face unusual ethical issues. We study animals rather than people and receive research approval from animal care rather than ethics committees. However, animal care evaluation forms are developed from concerns about laboratory animal research and are based on the "Three R's" for humane treatment of captive experimental subjects (replacement, reduction and refinement), which ...

Ethical Issues

Introduction Most professional organizations whose members deal with trauma victims have published ethical standards for treatment-related issues. Examples include the AAMFT Code of Ethics published by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Ethical Principles for Psychologists published by the American Psychological Association, the Principles of Medical Ethics with Ann...