The post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia are at various stages of development with respect to their capacity to protect human research participants. We examined the impact of two Fogarty-funded programs in this region, the Union Graduate College-Vilnius University Advanced Certificate Program and the Case Western Reserve University Master's Degree Program, by ...

It is argued that the ethical questions and challenges raised by the project of personalizing medicine are not sufficiently addressed without considering the possible effects thereof on our system of healthcare. I argue that the framing of ethical issues in light of the main principles of bioethics, such as autonomy, welfare and even justice, tends to be too narrow and the larger social implica...

T H I S BOOK IS A SEQUEL T O R O B E R T Veatch's earlier work, The Patient as Partner: A Tlieory of Human Experimentation Ethics. Us ing the same under ly ing theory of a pa r tne r sh ip between professionals and the public they serve, this work examines the partnership relationship in the context of clinical medicine. The first portion of the text summarizes the theoretical basis of the part...