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 on key areas of medical research where there are core ethical issues that arise both in theory and practice: genetics, neuroscience, surgery, palliative care, diagnostics, risk and prediction, security, pandemic threats, finances, technology, and public policy.This book is suitable for use from the most basic introductory courses to the highest levels of expertise in multidisciplinary contexts. The insights and research by this group of top scholars in the field of bioethics is an indispensable read for medical students in bioethics seminars and courses as well as for philosophy of bioethics classes in departments of philosophy, nursing faculties, law schools where bioethics is linked to medical law, experts in comparative law and public health, international human rights, and is equally useful for policy planning in pharmaceutical companies.
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Part I Philosophical Foundations |
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2 The Ethics of Medical Research |
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3 Genopolitics: Biotechnology Norms and the Liberal International Order |
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4 Persons and Groups: Protection of Research Participants with Vulnerabilities as a Process |
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5 Centring the Human Subject: Catalyzing Change in Ethics and Dementia Research |
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6 Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Addressing Patients' Unmet Needs or Causing Patient Harms? |
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7 Genetic Privacy in the Age of Consumer and Forensic DNA Applications |
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8 Ethical Issues in Neuroscience Research |
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9 Should Prisoners' Participation in Neuroscientific Research Always Be Disregarded When Making Decisions About Early Release? |
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10 Applying Neuroscience Research: The Bioethical Problems of Predicting and Explaining Behavior |
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11 Direct Benefit, Equipoise, and Research on the Non-consenting |
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12 The Ethics of Surgical Research and Innovation |
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13 Opening Death's Door: Psilocybin and Existential Suffering in Palliative Care |
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Part VII Diagnostics, Risk, and Prediction |
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14 How Risky Can Biomedical Research Be? |
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15 Ethical Issues in the Use of Risk Assessment |
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16 PTSD and Biomedical Research: Ethical Conundrums |
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Part VIII Security and Pandemic Threats |
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17 State Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case for Mask Mandates Under Human Rights Law |
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18 Research Ethics in Exceptional Times: What Lessons Should We Learn from Covid 19? |
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19 Ethics of Expanded Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Part IX Research Ethics Review: Multicontinental Perspectives |
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20 Bioethics and Its Relation to Medical Research in Japan: Historical Influences and Contemporary Pressures |
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21 Ethical Evaluations of Clinical Trials in France: Towards European Standardization |
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22 Research Ethics and Research Ethics Committees in Europe |
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23 Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research in French Law |
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Part X Finances, Technology, and Public Policy |
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24 Structural Problems in the Practice of Psychiatric Research |
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25 The Place of Digital and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Research |
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26 A Framework to Govern the Use of Health Data for Research in Africa: A South African Perspective |
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Professor Tomas Zima, Head of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague, served as Dean of the First Faculty of Medicine and Rector Magnificus of Charles University. Professor Zima is author of 470 articles which have been cited over 4500 times in the Science Citation Index. He has also written nine books and is Author of over 75 additional chapters. He has lectured globally at 160 universities and served in many leadership roles including as Member of the European Commissions Scientific Panel for Health (SPH). He is Chair of the Advisory Board for the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health.
Professor Weisstub is Honorary Life President of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health and Co-President of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health. He is Founding Editor of the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (Springer). For over 40years, he was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Elsevier) and is Co-Editor of Éthique, Médecine et Politiques Publiques with Professor Christian Hervé. For over 20 years, he was Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Until 2017, Professor Weisstub has held the Philippe Pinel Professorship in Legal Psychiatry and Biomedical Ethics at the Université de Montréal. He is Recipient of honorary doctorates in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour, he was appointed Grande Ufficiale in the Republic of Italy and knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in the Order of the Dutch Lion.
