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Why We Can and Should Improve on the Ethics of Clinical Research

Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:925-928.

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THE ETHICS of clinical research are long-standing; researchers confronted ethical issues long before the implementation of federal oversight and regulations¹ and continue to be challenged by the sometimes fuzzy distinctions between ethically acceptable and ethically unacceptable research. New technologies (gene therapy, stem cell transplants, and bioartificial organs, to name a few) raise new ethical issues, but at the same time, so many of the issues that researchers must deal with are recurring. This is a time not only of great opportunity and promise for the pursuit of biomedical research, but also of great responsibility.

The recent surge in federal oversight activity in research on human subjects has been a stimulus for renewed attention to ethics in research, and heightened public awareness of research issues means that the system of research must be above reproach. The federal government's Office for Human Research Protections and Food and Drug Administration have closed down . . . [Full Text of this Article]

THE QUALITY OF INFORMED CONSENT


THE (MIS)PERCEPTIONS OF RESEARCH SUBJECTS
The Confusion Between Research and Therapy

The Concept of Therapeutic Misconception

The Blurring of the Roles of Physicians and Researchers

THE IMPORTANCE OF TRUST

IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE

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