ethical issues during ethnographic research in residential homes: a personal experience

Ethical issues during ethnographic research in residential homes: A personal experience

Background: Ethical issues are essential components in any piece of research. In fact, they ought to be considered during designing, planning and conducting each research study particularly among the vulnerable. The aim of this paper is to describe and explain some of the ethical issues and challenges faced by a researcher who carried out a research in three Malaysian residential homes. Mate...

Key Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research: Islamic Perspective, Iranian Experience

OBJECTIVE The importance of pediatric research especially in the ethically proven trials resulted in considerable legislative attempts in association with compiling ethical guidelines. Because of children's vulnerability conducting pediatric research raises different ethical issues; the two most important of which are informed consent and risk-benefit assessment. Differences in religious and so...

Ethical Issues in Enhancement Research

This paper is a preliminary exploration concerning how the ethics of research on human subjects may differ when we move from the well-discussed context of research on therapies to the less-discussed context of research on enhancements. A number of differences are described. There are some features that make such research more morally problematic in certain ways, but some of the features may act...

Ethical Issues in Psychological Research

Ethical and Safety Issues in Doing Sex Work Research: Reflections From a Field-Based Ethnographic Study in Kolkata, India

While much has been said about the risks and safety issues experienced by female sex workers in India, there is a considerable dearth of information about the difficulties and problems that sex work researchers, especially female researchers, experience when navigating the highly political, ideological, and stigmatized environment of the Indian sex industry. As noted by scholars, there are seve...

A pragmatic consideration of ethical issues relating to personal genomics.

At 23andMe, we welcome opportunities to discuss ways in which we can balance the need to educate and protect consumers with our intertwined missions: giving people access to their own personal genetic information (PGI), and creating a novel, participant-driven research model. As the president of the American College of Medical Genetics recently noted, “the train has left the station,” no matter...