Articles related to "Ethics In Research"

Researchers must uniformly follow standards of professional conduct to ensure the welfare of research participants and the integrity of social science research.

Rob Duncan explains how to quickly gather intelligence about what your competition is doing without blowing the budget or selling your soul.

The concepts of setting, plot, character and conflict are good instructional teaching strategies to use when analyzing the moral dilemmas found in real life.

It is not an uncommon event to hear about a new medical breakthrough. Unfortunately, sometimes these breakthroughs are less important than some researchers claim.

Although U.S. physicians claimed to follow Nuremberg Code principles, a 1966 article by Henry K. Beecher raised serious questions about medical ethics since 1945.

Quest Atlantis is an online game where children learn skills to solve the world's problems, gaining points for social responsibility and compassionate behavior.

In 2005, the Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study was canceled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for reasons having little to do with ethics.

In 1959, Henry K. Beecher published the first of a series of articles on the ethics of human experimentation.

Medical research on human subjects often has been unrestrained by codes or regulations. One vulnerable population affected by unethical research is foster children.

Although informed consent is designed to protect individuals from unauthorized experimentation, the principle is a modern phenomenon that is not universally accepted.

For almost 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service studied syphilis in African American men without telling them that they were being experimented upon.

Environmental health ethics is not a new field, but children's rights in nontherapeutic environmental research were not protected until a 2001 court case, Grimes v. KKI.

In 1962, scientist and writer Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Penguin Modern Classics, 2000), the book which launched the modern environmental movement, was published.

Placebos have a valid role in medical research, but their use is restricted to specific circumstances that researchers sometimes ignore, as in a Uganda clinical trial.