This book presents a collection of essays that aims to make public the social discourse on ethics of health research used by responsible, practising researchers in order to demonstrate the detailed and fine consideration given to the ethics of the research task.
Introduction -- Ethics, Ethics Committees and the Researcher -- Whats
the Use of Bioethics? -- Research Ethics Committees: Is the Tail Wagging the
Dog? -- Ethics and Epidemiology: Problems for the Researcher -- Medicine and
the Ethical Conditions of Modernity -- Basic Research and Experimental
Designs -- Basic Research and the Ethics of Resource Allocation --
Traditional Scientific Designs and Ethics -- Clinical Care and Clinical
Research: A False Dichotomy -- Basic Research and Experiment: A Summing up --
Social Science Disciplines -- Social Science Health Research -- Unobtrusive
Methods in Delicate Situations -- My Soul Has Gone: Appropriate Methods for a
Delicate Situation -- Behavioural Research in Health: Individual Subject vs
Person in Context -- Health Economics and Policy: Ethical Dilemmas in the
Science of Scarcity -- Representing Community Views -- Representing the
Community: Issues from Applied Research Experiences -- Ethics and Health
Research in Aboriginal Communities -- Womens Health: Methods and Ethics --
Funding Health-Promoting Research: A Consumer Perspective -- The Clinicians
View of Research -- Clinicians Studying Their Own Practice: An Introduction
-- Mathematical Models and Clinical Practice -- Studying Narratives of Ageing
and Social Problems in Medical Encounters -- Primary Care: Issues for General
Practice Research -- Conclusion
