Scriptural ethical principles and traditional African ethics

Ethical considerations in African traditional medicine: a response to Nyika.

Like other so-called 'parallel' practices in medicine, traditional medicine (TM) does not avoid criticism or even rejection. Nyika's article 'Ethical and Regulatory Issues Surrounding African Traditional Medicine in the Context of HIV/AIDS' looks at some of the issues from a traditional Western ethical perspective and suggests that it should be rejected. I respond to this article agreeing with ...

Ethics, ethical comportment, and etiquette.

There has been discussion on how various theories of ethics are similar, how they are different, and how each should be applied. Ethical theory, in general, has been presented in opposition to situation-based ethics and the ethical comportment found in socially based practices. Etiquette is one concept that has entered these debates, only peripherally, as a negative example of what healthcare p...

Ethical ethics committees?

Ethical principles for the conduct of human subject research: population-based research and ethics.

Incorporating ethical principles into clinical research protocols: a tool for protocol writers and ethics committees

A novel Protocol Ethics Tool Kit ('Ethics Tool Kit') has been developed by a multi-stakeholder group of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard. The purpose of the Ethics Tool Kit is to facilitate effective recognition, consideration and deliberation of critical ethical issues in clinical trial protocols. The Ethics Tool Kit may be used by investiga...