It began in the 1920s when people became aware that unethical research studies were being carried out on human subjects. This applied to double-blind controls in research, research on children and research on prisoners, women and minorities where their human rights were violated. An explanation of...
Laws were passed to protect participants of studies from abuse, although the laws are not as thorough as you might think. That being said, there are things a researcher can do that are legal but not ethical. We will look at how the laws are set up and then look at ways a person can...
One of the main outcomes of the Belmont Report were the definition and establishment of IRBs. IRBs were created as an independent review and check on human subjects research. After multiple incidents of unethical research that was harmful to human participants, the US created the concept of IRBs...
The first challenge was the initial scarcity of educational resources, which did not come from Europe or the United States and were relevant to the Ugandan context. This was mitigated by the use of Africa-focused case studies. Trainees are encouraged to share their working experiences. We also ...
Human research, as per this definition, excludes in vitro studies that use human tissues, but do not deal directly with patients. Conversely, laboratory or translational research (“bench-to-bedside”), provided that the identity of the patients from whom the cells or tissues under study are ...
. Because many basic processes in animals are sufficiently similar to those in humans, these animals are acceptable substitutes for research that would be considered unethical in human participants.Figure 3. Rats, like the one shown here, often serve as the subjects of animal research. The ...
What if the authors and complainant, employing institutions and funding agencies fail to reach consensus or to act in a reasonable manner and time? COPE flowcharts Resources & Case studies Case study: Allegations of scientific fraud and unethical conduct of experiments with attempts to silence the ...
Researchers were excluded where they had been involved in north–south health research studies that were operational for less than one year at the time of sampling, and where eligible research studies had been completed more than five years prior to the commencement of data collection for this ...
Our visual experience in daily life are dominated by dynamic change. Decoding such dynamic information from brain activity can enhance the understanding of the brain’s visual processing system. However, previous studies predominately focus on reconstructing static visual stimuli. In this paper, we exp...
Editingin Hong Kong, many people raised questions about the informed consent process. Important as they are, the queries also seemed to be groping for a smoking gun – some clear violation of existing standards – in order to declare what people already felt: that the research was unethical. ...