Scandals, Ethics, and Regulatory Change in Biomedical Research

Ethics. Protecting communities in biomedical research.

Although for the last 50 years, ethicists dealing with human experimentation have focused primarily on the need to protect individual research subjects and vulnerable groups, biomedical research, especially in genetics, now requires the establishment of standards for the protection of communities. We have developed such a strategy, based on five steps. (i) Identification of community characteri...

Medical Ethics in Military Biomedical Research

The ethics of biomedical research on prisoners.

Introduction Over the past several years little has been reported regarding the ethics of biomedical research among prisoners. It appears that, following a spate of reports about egregious transgressions of canons of ethics by clinicians engaged in research in prisons, regulations put in place may have solved the problems. However, the dictum of a Persian Prince who is credited with advising a ...

[Ethics and biomedical research in Amerindian societies in Brazil]

This paper discusses the ethics of biomedical research in Amerindian populations of Brazil, focusing on the obtainment of informed consent in field work involving the collection of biological samples. The authors emphasize that the current legislation does not specifically regulate biomedical research in these populations. From an anthropological standpoint, the authors discuss some of the diff...

The ethics of using animals in biomedical research.