UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee included the subject of traditional medicine in its work programme for 2010-2011. A working group was set up and asked to consider the ethical implications of these widespread and highly varied practices, avoiding any overlap with the research being carried out by other United Nations bodies and agencies. In addition, relations were established with in...

Building families through adoption of children has been supported by human society throughout history. The ethical appropriateness of patients donating embryos to other patients for family building, or for research, is well established and is affirmed by this body. The use of the term "adoption" to embryos is inaccurate and should be avoided. This document replaces the ASRM Ethics Committee sta...

An AAOS Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism is an official AAOS statement dealing with an ethical issue, which offers aspirational advice on how an orthopaedic surgeon can best deal with a particular situation or circumstance. Developed through a consensus process by the AAOS Ethics Committee, an Opinion on Ethics and Professionalism is not a product of a systematic review. An AAOS Opinion on...

The following comments are submitted on behalf of the more than 1.4 million members and supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in response to the nominations of substances to NTP for study in 2007 (March 29, 2007; Federal Register 72(60):14816-14818). PETA and PCRM are committed to using the best available sc...

Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Singapore Cabinet in December 2000 to examine the potential ethical, legal, and social issues arising from Singapore's biomedical research sector, and to recommend policy to Singapore's government. BAC's deliberations on embryonic stem cell research [3] ...

Methods: It is a qualitative research based on the Theory of Social Representations carried out with 80 academics of the Dentistry course. The data were collected through a semi-structured interview script, processed in the IRaMuTeQ and analyzed by the Descending Hierarchical Classification. The study followed the ethical standards recommended by Resolution n. 466/2012, obtaining approval from ...

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER PROCEEDINGS VOLUME 17, NUMBER 1 73 BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2004;17:73–82 Robert L. Fine, MD The discipline of clinical medical ethics guides both the moral stance of the total institution as well as the specific ethical decisions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers. None would quarrel with the fact that a health care institution as a caring entity mu...

BACKGROUND The approval of a research ethics committee (REC) and obtaining informed consent from patients (ICP) could be considered the main issues in the ethics of research with human beings. The aim of this study was to assess both methodological quality and ethical quality, and also to assess the relationship between these two qualities in randomised phase III cancer trials. METHOD Methodo...

How do voting institutions affect incentives of committees to vote expressively? We model a committee that chooses whether approve proposal some members may consider ethical. Members who for the receive expressive utility, and all pay cost if is accepted. Committee have different depths reasoning. Under certain sufficient conditions, predicts features reduce probability member being pivotal – n...

Evaluating the practice of ethical review by Research Ethics Committees (REC) could help protect the interests of human participants and promote scientific progress. To facilitate such evaluations, we conducted an ethnographic study of how an REC reviews research proposals during its meetings. We observed 13 meetings of a Dutch REC and studied REC documents. We coded this material inductively a...