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.
Part 1: Philosophical Foundations.
Chapter
1. Embryo Research Ethics
(Robert George).
Chapter
2. The Ethics of Medical Research (David Novak).-
Chapter
3. Genopolitics (Jonathan Moreno).- Part 2: Vulnerability.
Chapter
4. Persons and Groups: Protection of research participants with
vulnerabilities as a process (Pawel Lukow).
Chapter
5. Centring the Human
Subject: Catalyzing Change in Ethics and Dementia Research (Susan Cox).- Part
3: Genetics.
Chapter
6. Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Addressing
Patients Unmet Needs or Causing Patient Harms (Kirstin Matthews).
Chapter
7. Genetic Privacy in the Age of Consumer & Forensic DNA Applications
(Sheldon Krimsky).- Part 4: Neuroscience.
Chapter
8. Ethical Issues in
Neuroscience Research (Walter Glannon).
Chapter
9. Should Prisoners
Participation in Neuroscientific Research Always be Disregarded When Making
Decisions About Early Release? (Elizabeth Shaw).
Chapter
10. Applying
Neuroscience Research: The bioethical problems ofpredicting and explaining
behavior (David Freedman).
Chapter
11. Direct Benefit, Equipoise, And
Research On The Non-Consenting (Stephen Napier).- Part
5. Surgery.
Chapter
12. The Ethics of Surgical Research and Innovation (Wendy A Rogers).- Part
6.
Palliative Care.
Chapter
13. Opening Deaths Door: Psilocybin and
Therapeutic Meaning Response in Palliative Care (Duff Waring).- Part
7.
Diagnostics, Risk, and Prediction.
Chapter
14. How Risky Can Biomedical
Research Be? (Joanna Rozynska).
Chapter
15. Biomedical Ethics and Prediction
of Terrorism (David Shapiro).
Chapter
16. PTSD and Biomedical Research:
Ethical Conundrums (Lenore Walker).- Part
8. Security and Pandemic Threats.-
Chapter
17. Human Rights and Priorities in Medical Research Ethics in Light
of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jonathan Hafetz).
Chapter
18. An Aspirational Code
of Conduct for Life Scientists (Malcolm Dando).
Chapter
19. Research Ethics
in Exceptional Times: What lessons should we learn from Covid-19? (Sųren
Holm).
Chapter
20. Ethics of Expanded Access during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Eline Bunnik).- Part
9. Research Ethics Review: Multicontinental
Perspectives.
Chapter
21. Bioethics and its Relation to Medical Research in
Japan: Historical Influences and Contemporary Pressures (Darryl Macer).-
Chapter
22. Ethical Evaluations of Clinical Trials in France: Towards
European Standardization (Bettina Couderc).
Chapter
23. Research Ethics and
Research Ethics Committees in Europe (Dirk Lanzerath).
Chapter
24. Conflicts
of Interest in Biomedical Research in French Law (Guillaume Rousset).- Part
10. Finances, Technology, and Public Policy.
Chapter
25. Structural Problems
in the Practice of Psychiatric Research (Heather Stuart).
Chapter
26. The
Place of Digital and Artificial Intelligence in Medical Research (Anne-Marie
Duguet).
Chapter
27. A framework to govern the use of health data for
research in Africa: A South African perspective (Ciara Staunton).
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.
