Tudi LePosts by Tudi LeBioethics Forum EssayConscientious Objection and Abortion: Medical Students’ PerspectiveDespite the medical necessity of the abortion, it was delayed and rescheduled twice that day because individual anesthesiologists, technicians, and nurses did not want to be involved in, what several called, “this kind of procedure.”Read Conscientious Objection and Abortion: Medical Students’ PerspectiveRelated PostsBioethics Forum EssayNewly Released Documents from Untreated Syphilis Study: Ethical, Just, and Respectful Use of Archival MaterialsTo mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the United States Public Health Service’s Syphilis Study, the National Library of Medicine recently digitized and released reams of historical documents on the “origin and development of the Tuskegee syphilis study.” The release of these documents is a poignant occasion to consider what qualifies as ethical, just, and respectful use of archival materials.Read Newly Released Documents from Untreated Syphilis Study: Ethical, Just, and Respectful Use of Archival MaterialsBioethics Forum EssayRace, Research, and Bioethics: The Chapatis StudiesNew inquiry examines ethics of 1960's experiments involving Punjabi immigrants in the United Kingdom and radioactive chapatis.Read Race, Research, and Bioethics: The Chapatis StudiesEventThe Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and OpportunitiesJoin a discussion on The Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and Opportunities with the new President of The Hastings Center, Vardit Ravitsky. Speaker: Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D, President and CEO of The...Read The Future of Bioethics: Challenges, Visions and OpportunitiesBioethics Forum EssayHuman Challenge Studies for Covid-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and RisksExperts in infectious disease and public health warn that the Covid-19 pandemic will be with us until there is an effective vaccine, possibly 12 to 18 months in the future. This situation has given rise to calls for human challenge studies, in which healthy volunteers are injected with an experimental vaccine and then infected with the disease to test the vaccine’s efficacy. Is this ethically justifiable?Read Human Challenge Studies for Covid-19 Vaccine: Questions about Benefits and RisksIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchThe Ethics of Net-Risk Pediatric Research: Implications of Valueless and Harmful StudiesAbstract: Net-risk pediatric research encompasses interventions and studies that pose risks and do not offer a compensating potential for clinical benefit. These interventions and studies are central to efforts to improve...Read The Ethics of Net-Risk Pediatric Research: Implications of Valueless and Harmful StudiesIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchPotential Benefits to Families, Children, and Adolescents Enrolled in Longitudinal Qualitative ResearchAbstract: Previous research has focused on the risks of research participation but has rarely considered possible benefits. For a study of family decision-making during pediatric bone marrow transplant, we conducted qualitative...Read Potential Benefits to Families, Children, and Adolescents Enrolled in Longitudinal Qualitative ResearchBioethics Forum EssayA FIRST-rate Oversight, and Other Problems with Studies of Medical Residents’ Work HoursThe rigors of medical and surgical training require long hours dedicated to providing clinical care. While long hours are necessary to obtain the experience to eventually practice independently, performing too...Read A FIRST-rate Oversight, and Other Problems with Studies of Medical Residents’ Work HoursIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchQuestionable Research Practices Compel Subjects to Join StudiesWhat the Doctor Didn’t Say: The Hidden Truth About Medical Research, by Jerry Menikoff (with Edward Richards), is an insightful, clear, and engaging overview of some of the ethical and...Read Questionable Research Practices Compel Subjects to Join StudiesIRB: Ethics & Human ResearchMonitoring Reportable Events and Unanticipated Problems: The PHAROS and PREDICT Studies of Huntington DiseaseWe describe a process developed to anticipate and identify new potential risks of harm to research participants who are at risk for Huntington disease but have not developed symptoms. An...Read Monitoring Reportable Events and Unanticipated Problems: The PHAROS and PREDICT Studies of Huntington Disease
