Modern approaches for research with human biospecimens employ a variety of substantially different types of ethics approval and informed consent. In most cases, standard ethics reporting such as "consent and approval was obtained" is no longer meaningful. A structured analysis of 120 biospecimen studies recently published in top journals revealed that more than 85% reported on consent and appro...

Automated vehicle (AV) as a social agent in a dynamic traffic environment mixed with other road users, will encounter risk situations compelling it to make decisions in complex dilemmas. This paper presents the AVEthics (Ethics policy for Automated Vehicles) project. AVEthics aims to provide a framework for an ethics policy for the artificial intelligence of an AV in order to regulate its inter...

background: local ethical committees in medical sciences in iran were established in 1999 in order to assess and evaluate the observance of ethical standards throughout the universities and research centers. the purpose of this study is to analyze the situation of local ethical committees in order to develop research ethics guideline. methods: for this cross-sectional study which has been condu...

Ethics is an ever relevant aspect in every field of human activity in general and health care in particular. From the classical times, professional ethical codes and prayers directed the practice and distribution of the medical care. As the society and its institutions have changed since Hippocrates, so did the practice and delivery of health care changed as the current health care concerns inc...

BACKGROUND Moral sensitivity refers to the interpretive awareness of moral conflict and can be justice or care oriented. Justice ethics is associated primarily with human rights and the application of moral rules, whereas care ethics is related to human needs and a situational approach involving social emotions. Among the core brain regions involved in moral issue processing are: medial prefron...

In Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, 1953, " ethics " is defined as " the science of moral duty; more broadly the science of the ideal human character and the ideal ends of human action. " From a more pragmatic point of view, ethics in the medical world and, more specifically , in pain medicine, is, by and large, a road-map that allows us to keep practicing in the face of ...

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...

The versatility and adaptability of information technology (IT) offer many potential benefits to society, its organisations and its citizens, but there are also associated risks. The social and ethical implications of this technology warrant special attention and have resulted in the creation of information ethics as a discrete area of study. The overall goal of information ethics is to integra...

Challenges in research ethics education in the behavioral and social sciences appears to stem from two distinct yet related sources. One is the use of the terms “research ethics” and “research regulations” interchangeably. And, second is the notion that the ethical and regulatory frameworks for the protection of human research participants are not applicable to the behavioral and social science...