The job of ‘ethics committees’

Ethics committees and ethics consultants

Ethics committee and ethics consultants are among the more interesting phenomena associated with bioethics. Although in some respects both reach back to the ancient origins of medical ethics, in other ways they are reflections of a ‘postmodern’ society that seeks moral resolutions while remaining agnostic about substantive moral absolutes. In the present article I shall describe the history of ...

The Role and Composition of Research Ethics Committees

تحقیقات در علوم سلامت، طیف وسیعی از انواع مطالعات را در بر می‌گیرد. برای مثال، این تحقیقات می‌تواند شامل مطالعات آزمایشگاهی، یا پژوهش‌هایی که بر روی حیوانات به عمل می‌آید را در بر گیرد. هم‌چنین، تحقیقاتی که در سطح بالین بیماران به عمل ‌آمده و یا تحقیقات اپیدمیولوژیک که در سطح افراد، گروه‌ها و جوامع صورت می‌پذیرد را نیز، شامل شود ]1[. برای این که همه این تحقیقات، به درستی طراحی شده و به اهداف از...

Developing clinical ethics committees.

Formal clinical ethics review first developed in the USA and most hospitals there have structures in place. This is often a clinical ethics committee. Developments have been slower in the UK, where there has been uncertainty and variability about the role of clinical ethics committees. Even in the USA, their exact role is uncertain. Although we now have a good idea of the mechanisms for ethical...

Ethical ethics committees?

Hospital ethics committees in Israel: structure, function and heterogeneity in the setting of statutory ethics committees.

OBJECTIVES Hospital ethics committees increasingly affect medical care worldwide, yet there has been little evaluation of these bodies. Israel has the distinction of having ethics committees legally required by a Patients' Rights Act. We studied the development of ethics committees in this legal environment. DESIGN Cross-sectional national survey of general hospitals to identify all ethics co...