Casebook on ethical issues in international health research

Publication/Creation:: Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2009
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: Casebook on ethical issues in international health research editors, Richard Cash ... [et al.] ; associate editor, Reva Gutnick

Additional Author/Creators:: Cash, Richard A.
Gutnick, Reva
World Health Organization

Subjects:: Research--Moral and ethical aspects
Ethics--Research
Public health--Research
Medical ethics--Case studies
Ethics--Case studies

Table of Contents:: Cover; Title; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; The editors; Introduction; Teaching Guide; The Case Studies; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Glossary; Suggested readings and resources; Appendix
Summary:: This casebook collects 64 case studies, each of which raises an important and difficult ethical issue connected with planning, reviewing, or conducting health-related research. The book's purpose is to contribute to thoughtful analysis of these issues by researchers and members of research ethics committees (RECs, known in some places as ethical review committees or institutional review boards), particularly thoseinvolved with studies that are conducted or sponsored internationally. This collection is envisioned principally as a tool to aid educational programs, from short workshops on researc
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (211 p.)
General Note:: Description based upon print version of record.