Research Ethics

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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.

Alliance for Stem Cell Research - The mission of the Alliance for Stem Cell Research is to advance stem cell research and educate the public about its potential and progress.

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.

Chesapeake Research Review, Inc. - A 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.

David J. Rothman: The Shame of Medical Research - Rothman article from The New York Review of Books.

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.

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.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.