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The Talk of the Town

Lauren Collins: Track School
Lauren Collins Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
June marks the onset of what one Village resident refers to as “devil-baby season”--the time of the year when the temperature climbs and New Yorkers start doing crazy stuff. This year, the weather stayed cold, and damp. Things still got weird. On Long Island, a newborn was found . . .
James Surowiecki: Caveat Mortgagor
James Surowiecki Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
In 1937, the Massengill Company began selling a health product called Elixir Sulfanilamide, which contained one of the antibiotic sulfa drugs. Unfortunately, it also contained diethylene glycol, a solvent that happens to be deadly to humans. In a matter of months, the elixir killed more than a hundred consumers. The . . .
Hendrik Hertzberg: Stonewall Plus Forty
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0000
The most improbable of America’s mass movements for civil rights--improbable at the time, inevitable in retrospect--got its start at a most improbable hour in a most improbable place. The hour: two in the morning, forty years ago. The place: the sidewalk in front of the Stonewall Inn, a . . .

 

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine - A research ethics course presented by Dr. Ruth Macklin, Professor of bioethics in the department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine.
Meta Description: [ Embedding Ethics in a Training Program in Clinical Research Methods ]

APA Ethics Office - American Psychological Association sanctioned resources for ethics in psychology, including guidelines for human and animal studies, rules and procedures, and ethical principles.
Meta Description: [ Links to full-text ethics information: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Ethics Committee on Services by Telephone, Teleconferencing, and Internet, Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals, and more. ]

Chesapeake Research Review, Inc. - An commercial organisation providing ethics and scientific review of clinical studies. Also offers consultation and training to IRBs.

CIOMS - CIOMS 2002 research ethics guidelines.

Circare - Citizens for Responsible Care and Research is an independent non-profit human research protection advocacy agency.
Meta Description: [ Human Research Protections, Ethics, and Health Law information from CIRCARE, Citizens for Responsible Care and Research, the oldest independent nonprofit human subject protection advocacy group ]

David J. Rothman: The Shame of Medical Research - Rothman article from The New York Review of Books.
Meta Description: [ Preview of an article by David J. Rothman from The New York Review of Books, November 30, 2000 ]

DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments - The U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.
Meta Description: [ The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. We have undertaken an intensive effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3... ]

DOE Protecting Human Subjects - Ethics regulations, guidelines and resources for employees of the U.S. Department of Energy.

Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Participants (CBM 99-3) - Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Participants. US Library of Medicine bibliography.

404 Human Research Ethics Handbook - Cover Page - The Australian government's National health and Medical Research Council's handbook on research ethics.

Institutional Review Board (US research ethics committee) - Informative site of commercial IRB service provider.
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International research ethics - Norwegian research ethics site dedicated to collaborative clinical trials in developing countries

Internet Research Ethics - Examines various issues of research in the cyberspace domain. AAAS workshop report.

King's College - Centre of Medical Law and Ethics - Systematic training in ethical review of research proposals involving human subjects.
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North Carolina State University Research Ethics Program - Our program supports research, education, and engagement in research ethics.

Office of Research Integrity - U.S. Public Health Service - ORI Indices of publications, guidelines and regulations, and other resources.
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Research Program Ethics in Biomedicine, Uppsala University - The program intitiates and coordinates research in biomedical ethics through multi-disciplinary networks of scholars at Uppsala University and other universities in Sweden and abroad.

Resources on Experiments Performed by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense - Big index of sites related to human radiation experiments. Last updated in 1997.

The Dilemma of Tainted Data - Discusses the true story of an atlas of drawings of the human body having origins in the dissection of dead Nazi prisoners.
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The Ethics Of Using Medical Data From Nazi Experiments - Article by Baruch C. Cohen that addresses the questions of Is it ever appropriate to use data as morally repugnant as that which was extracted from victims of Nazism? If so, under what circumstances?
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404 University Human Research Ethics Manual Booklets - Booklets on human research ethics are added here as they are completed by the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. MSWord97 and *.rtf formats.
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