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Looking Back on Jesse Helms' Life
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:14:00 -0400
Sen. No, as he was often called, "was a real throwback," says Merle Black, a professor of southern politics at Emory University. One of a select group of politicians who helped solidify Republican control in the South, he had a loyal constituency of working-class whites in North Carolina.
Financial Aid Woes Make Community College More Appealing
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:00 -0400
Despite efforts by the Bush Administration and Congress to quell turmoil in the student loan market, some students are still struggling to find money for college. We examine the case of two recent high school graduates who have been promised financial aid, but don't know how much they can count on.
When Did Flag Pins Become So Important?
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Sen. Barack Obama Obama was questioned about why he doesn't always wear a flag pin during a Democratic debate in April. His critics say his lack of pin casts doubt on Obama's patriotism, and recently the Democratic candidate has been wearing one.

The Talk of the Town

The Chill
Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

 

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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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