22 Waldenstrom U, Silsson C. A randomized controlled study of birth center care versus standard maternity care: effects on women's health. Perhaps a week of intensive training in critical thinking would be the best preparation for members of research ethics committees n a recent lecture at Monash University, the philosopher Raimond Gaita, Professor of Moral Philosophy at King' s College , Unive...

This has resulted in increased public scrutiny over the past few decades in some countries like the United States and only more recently in others like Canada. In the midst of the repeated calls for increased public oversight of research activities, much attention has focussed on the development of social, ethical and legal norms. In addition, in many countries, ethics review committees (or res...

1. Resolving Ethical Issues 1.01 Misuse of Psychologists’ Work 1.02 Conflicts Between Ethics and Law, Regulations, or Other Governing Legal Authority 1.03 Conflicts Between Ethics and Organizational Demands 1.04 Informal Resolution of Ethical Violations 1.05 Reporting Ethical Violations 1.06 Cooperating With Ethics Committees 1.07 Improper Complaints 1.08 Unfair Discrimination Against Complaina...

Nigerian research ethics committees are charged with the responsibility to monitor ongoing research to ensure compliance with ethical standards. Recent evidence from qualitative studies on research conduct however, indicate that many research studies fail to implement their protocols as written, and that this is not reported due to a failure of comprehensive monitoring. As Nigeria is in many re...

Protecting the safety and welfare of clinical trial subjects is the primary responsibility of the multidisciplinary ethics committee. In India, ethics committees have come under increasing criticism for functioning as "secret societies unaccountable to the public" (1). Yet, little effort has been made to undertake qualitative research on the ethics review bodies. This article describes the esse...

Despite the relatively recent advent of organizational ethics committees--created to address operational concerns that are not always appropriate for a clinical ethics committee to take on--there remain impediments (such as time constraints, limited ethical expertise, lack of senior leaders at the table, and waning interest of members) to the impact such a group might have. Committed to address...

Meaningful progress of medicine depends on research that must ultimately involve human subjects. Obtaining ethical approval therefore, especially in medical sciences, should be a moral reflex for researchers. This unfortunately is not the case, with numerous researchers bypassing the ethics approval procedure, or simply unaware of its importance. Good research involves risks taken by research p...

Clinical ethics committees have existed in Norway since 1996. By now all hospital trusts have one. An evaluation of these committees’ work was started in 2004. This paper presents results from an interview study of eight clinicians who evaluated six committees’ deliberations on ten clinical cases. The study indicates that the clinicians found the clinical ethics consultations useful and worth w...