Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century

This book provides a current review of Medical Research Ethics on a global basis. The book contains chapters that are historically and philosophically reflective and aimed to promote a discussion about controversial and foundational aspects in the field. An elaborate group of chapters concentrates o...

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Other Authors: Zima, Tomas (Editor), Weisstub, David N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Philosophical Foundations
  • Chapter 1. Embryo Research Ethics (Robert George)
  • Chapter 2. The Ethics of Medical Research (David Novak)
  • Chapter 3. Genopolitics (Jonathan Moreno)
  • Part 2: Vulnerability
  • Chapter 4. Persons and Groups: Protection of research participants with vulnerabilities as a process (Pawel Lukow)
  • Chapter 5. Centring the Human Subject: Catalyzing Change in Ethics and Dementia Research (Susan Cox)
  • Part 3: Genetics
  • Chapter 6. Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Addressing Patients’ Unmet Needs or Causing Patient Harms (Kirstin Matthews)
  • Chapter 7. Genetic Privacy in the Age of Consumer & Forensic DNA Applications (Sheldon Krimsky)
  • Part 4: Neuroscience
  • Chapter 8. Ethical Issues in Neuroscience Research (Walter Glannon)
  • Chapter 9. Should Prisoners’ Participation in Neuroscientific Research Always be Disregarded When Making Decisions About Early Release? (Elizabeth Shaw)
  • Chapter 19. Research Ethics in Exceptional Times: What lessons should we learn from Covid-19? (Søren Holm)
  • Chapter 20. Ethics of Expanded Access during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Eline Bunnik)
  • Part 9. Research Ethics Review: Multicontinental Perspectives
  • Chapter 21. Bioethics and its Relation to Medical Research in Japan: Historical Influences and Contemporary Pressures (Darryl Macer)
  • Chapter 22. Ethical Evaluations of Clinical Trials in France: Towards European Standardization (Bettina Couderc)
  • Chapter 23. Research Ethics and Research Ethics Committees in Europe (Dirk Lanzerath)
  • Chapter 24. Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research in French Law (Guillaume Rousset)
  • Part 10. Finances, Technology, and Public Policy
  • Chapter 25. Structural Problems in the Practice of Psychiatric Research (Heather Stuart)
  • Chapter 26. The Place of Digital and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Research (Anne-Marie Duguet)
  • Chapter 27. A framework to govern the use of health data for research in Africa: A South African perspective (Ciara Staunton)
  • Chapter 10. Applying Neuroscience Research: The bioethical problems ofpredicting and explaining behavior (David Freedman)
  • Chapter 11. Direct Benefit, Equipoise, And Research On The Non-Consenting (Stephen Napier)
  • Part 5. Surgery
  • Chapter 12. The Ethics of Surgical Research and Innovation (Wendy A Rogers)
  • Part 6. Palliative Care
  • Chapter 13. Opening Death’s Door: Psilocybin and Therapeutic Meaning Response in Palliative Care (Duff Waring)
  • Part 7. Diagnostics, Risk, and Prediction
  • Chapter 14. How Risky Can Biomedical Research Be? (Joanna Rozynska)
  • Chapter 15. Biomedical Ethics and Prediction of Terrorism (David Shapiro)
  • Chapter 16. PTSD and Biomedical Research: Ethical Conundrums (Lenore Walker)
  • Part 8. Security and Pandemic Threats
  • Chapter 17. Human Rights and Priorities in Medical Research Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jonathan Hafetz)
  • Chapter 18. An Aspirational Code of Conduct for Life Scientists (Malcolm Dando)