Public Trust as a Policy Goal for Research With Human Subjects

Human research subjects as human research workers.

Biomedical research involving human subjects has traditionally been treated as a unique endeavor, presenting special risks and demanding special protections. But in several ways, the regulatory scheme governing human subjects research is counter-intuitively less protective than the labor and employment laws applicable to many workers. This Article relies on analogical and legal reasoning to dem...

Trust and reciprocity: foundational principles for human subjects imaging research.

human subjects themselves. While curiosity, the lure of a monetary incentive or a keepsake brainscan, or the occasional hope for a medical explanation for an undisclosed complaint may underly a subject’s decision to participate in research involving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, altruism is a fundamental driving force. Given the terms of the research contract between the invest...

Research with human subjects as a paradigm in teaching.

A Trust Region Algorithm for Solving Nonlinear Equations (RESEARCH NOTE)

This paper presents a practical and efficient method to solve large-scale nonlinear equations. The global convergence of this new trust region algorithm is verified. The algorithm is then used to solve the nonlinear equations arising in an Expanded Lagrangian Function (ELF). Numerical results for the implementation of some large-scale problems indicate that the algorithm is efficient for these ...

Human Dignity as Leading Principle in Public Health Ethics: A Multi-Case Analysis of 21st Century German Health Policy Decisions

Background There is ample evidence that since the turn of the millennium German health policy made a considerable step towards prevention and health promotion, putting the strategies of ‘personal empowerment’ and ‘settings based approach’ high on the federal government’s agenda. This phenomenon has challenged the role of ethics in health policy. Concurrently, increasing relevance of the Concept...