Robert Klitzman
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University
Posts by Robert Klitzman
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Facebook’s Emotion Experiment: Implications for Research Ethics
Read the PostBioethics Forum EssaySeveral 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 2012, Facebook entered almost 700,000 users – without their knowledge – in a study ...Read the Post - Bioethics Forum Essay
Medical Privacy for Royalty and the Rest of Us
Read the PostBioethics Forum Essay“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 was treating him – a young man in his early 20s. I had never met her, and sensed they had a strained relationship. But didn’t she, as...Read the Post
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Read the PostPRESS RELEASE 1-29-2019: The Inaugural Issue of Ethics & Human Research, January – February 2019
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What Makes IRBs Tick? An Empirical Analysis of IRBs and Their Relationship with Researchers
Read the PostIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchRobert 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 institutional review boards (IRBs) that oversee them. On the one hand, he acknowle...Read the Post - IRB: Ethics & Human Research
How IRB Leaders View and Approach Challenges Raised by Industry-Funded Research
Read the PostIRB: Ethics & Human 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 broadly. Industry-funded studies may be “me-too” drug and post-marketing studies, or studies that raise q...Read the Post - IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Voluntariness of Consent to Research: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation
Read the PostIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchProviding 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 Techniques have been developed to assess the content and adequacy of inform...Read the Post Fellows
Read the PostHastings 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 research and the environment. Hastings Center Fellows may be academic bioethicist...Read the Post
