Ethics & Human Research
- Ethics & Human Research
Should Participants in Clinical Trials Be Able to Withdraw from Passive Follow-Up?
January-February 2021
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchA research participant’s right to withdraw from all research procedures is widely accepted, but there can be justifiable limits to a participant’s exercise of autonomy to withdraw from some procedures. Clinical outcomes trials depend on complete subject follow-up for accurate assessment of the s...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
The Ethics of Research That May Disadvantage Others
January-February 2021
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchIn prospective interventional research, a treatment may provide an advantage for the recipient over other people who do not receive it. If the intervention proves successful, the treated are better able to compete for such things as a scarce ventilator, a class grade, or a litigation outcome, potent...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
What Factors Predict Willingness to Join Low-Risk Pragmatic Clinical Trials?
January-February 2021
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchPragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) may improve the efficiency, relevance, and representativeness of research. While prior research has indicated that willingness to join a PCT is high, it is not universal among those asked in surveys exploring attitudes toward hypothetical PCTs. The objective of this ...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
The Competing Demands of Patient Privacy and Clinical Research
January-February 2021
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchPrivacy and confidentiality of personal medical information are cornerstones of ethical clinical care and ethical research. But real-world research has challenged traditional ways of thinking about privacy and confidentiality of information. In today’s world of “big data” and learning health c...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Should the Regulation of Research Misconduct Be Integrated with the Ethics Framework Promulgated in The Belmont Report?
January-February 2021
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchThe federal research misconduct regulations finalized in 2005 did not incorporate important principles regarding human subjects protections articulated in The Belmont Report, yet research misconduct can involve harms to research subjects and to subsequent patients whose treatments are based on false...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Agency and Exploitation: Exploring the Hidden World of Healthy Phase I Research Participants
January-February 2021
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Ethical and Practical Concerns about IRB Restrictions on the Use of Research Data
November-December 2020
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchIn response to researcher noncompliance with ethical and regulatory provisions governing research with hu-mans, protocol deviations, and unanticipated problems with research, institutional review boards (IRBs) or institutions sometimes impose restrictions on the use of research data, although specif...Read the Post - Ethics & Human Research
Loopholes in the Research Ethics System? Informed Consent Waivers in Cluster Randomized Trials with Individual-Level Intervention
November-December 2020
Read the PostEthics & Human ResearchIndividual-cluster trials randomize groups of individuals but deliver study interventions directly to individual participants. We examine three arguments that might justify the perception that the bar for a waiver of consent should be lower in such trials than for individually randomized trials. We ...Read the Post
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Ethics & Human Research (formerly IRB: Ethics & Human Research) aims to foster critical analysis of issues in science and health care that have implications for human biomedical and behavioral research, including developments that bring new challenges to existing ethical, regulatory, and policy frameworks governing research with humans in the United States and elsewhere. Six issues are published each year, containing an assortment of commentaries, case studies, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.
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Karen J. Maschke, editor
Laura Haupt, managing editor Julie Chibbaro, staff editor Nora Porter, art director |
Editorial Board
Laura Beskow, PhD, MPH Vanderbilt University Barbara Bierer, MD Harvard University Alex Capron, LLB University of Southern California Stephanie Solomon Cargill, PhD St. Louis University Rebecca S. Dresser, JD, MS Washington University in St. Louis Carl Elliott, MD, PhD University of Minnesota Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE University of Pennsylvania Joseph J. Fins, MD Weill Cornell Medical College Paul Ford, PhD Cleveland Clinic Cristine Grady, MSN, PhD National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Steven Joffe, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania Jonathan Kimmelman, PhD McGill University Nancy M. P. King, JD Wake Forest University Susan Lederer, PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison Alex John London, PhD Carnegie Mellon University Suzanne Rivera, PhD, MSW Case Western Reserve University Mark A. Rothstein, JD University of Louisville Laura Stark, PhD Vanderbilt University Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA Johns Hopkins University Benjamin S. Wilfond, MD Seattle Children’s Research Institute |
ISSN 2578-2355 print; ISSN 2578-2363 online
Publisher: Wiley