Robert KlitzmanProfessor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia UniversityPosts by Robert KlitzmanBioethics Forum EssayFacebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research EthicsSeveral aspects of a recently published experiment conducted by Facebook have received wide media attention, but the study also raises issues of significance for the ethical review of research more generally. In...Read Facebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research EthicsBioethics Forum EssayMedical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of Us “What’s happening with my son?” a woman on the other end of the phone asked me. I wasn’t sure what to say. I was training to be a psychiatrist, and...Read Medical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of UsRelated PostsEventELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable FutureHastings Center scholar Erik Parens along with Paul Appelbaum, Robert Klitzman, and Julia Wynn will appear on a panel at the ELSIcon2022 conference: “The Impact of Receipt of Genetic Test...Read ELSIcon2022: Innovating for a Just and Equitable Future Supporting InformationWalker, R. L., D. MacKay, M. Waltz, A. D. Lyerly, and J. A. Fisher, “Ethical Criteria for Improved Human Subject Protections in Phase I Healthy Volunteer Trials,” Ethics & Human...Read Supporting Information PRESS RELEASE 1-29-2019: The Inaugural Issue of Ethics & Human Research, January – February 2019Editor’s Note: Widening the Lens Karen J. Maschke The journal’s name change “provides an opportunity to identify new ethical, policy, and regulatory challenges that rapid developments in science, medicine, and...Read PRESS RELEASE 1-29-2019: The Inaugural Issue of Ethics & Human Research, January – February 2019IRB: Ethics & Human ResearchWhat Makes IRBs Tick? An Empirical Analysis of IRBs and Their Relationship with ResearchersRobert Klitzman’s provocatively titled book, The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe, explores the often contentious relationship between the scientists who conduct human subjects research and the...Read What Makes IRBs Tick? An Empirical Analysis of IRBs and Their Relationship with ResearchersIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchHow IRB Leaders View and Approach Challenges Raised by Industry-Funded ResearchMany questions exist concerning how IRBs view and respond to challenges posed by industry-funded studies. These studies may be designed to benefit the funder more than science or society more...Read How IRB Leaders View and Approach Challenges Raised by Industry-Funded ResearchIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchVoluntariness of Consent to Research: A Preliminary Empirical InvestigationProviding informed consent to participate in research—a primary pillar of the ethical conduct of research—is based on three components: adequate information, a competent decision-maker, and a voluntary decision process .1...Read Voluntariness of Consent to Research: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation FellowsHastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences...Read Fellows
