Articles, Editorials, etc. about Human Experimentation

• Law and the Physician: A Practical Guide by Edward P. Richards and Katharine C. Rathbun
• The Dilemmas of Experimenting on People by Jonathan D. Moreno from Technology Review Online
• The Biological Manipulation of the Human Population
• Nonconsensual Brainwave and Personality Studies by the U.S. Government by Cheryl Welsh, from the Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse web page
• Ethics by Bob Hale
• The Consent of the Lambs editorial about FDA regulations permitting experimentation without consent of subject
• Mass Murderers in White Coats (From Harvard to Buchenwald: A Chronology of Psychiatry and Eugenics by Lenny Lapon
• Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill; Still no solution in the struggle on safeguards by Dolores Kong, Boston Globe, 11/18/98
• changing the ed of scientists from an AAAS Forum
• Maryland statute group part of growing trend: Guinea pigs don't get to say 'no'
  High-risk, painful research inflicted on 'decisionally incapacitated' people: 'At the mercy of overzealous researchers'
  Easing of FDA rules may have led to deaths: Media hasn't put 2 and 2 together, says Steve Drake
  Three articles by Mike Ervin in Ragged Edge Magazine (an online magazine from Disability Rights Nation)
• http://artnscience.us/Med_Ethics/index.html  "A Brief History of Military Contributions to Ethical Standards for Research
  Involving Human Subjects"
  
   

Publications & Policies:

• The Belmont Report
• Clinical Equipoise, a PowerPoint presentation from Canada's National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR)
• Clinical Trials Guidelines (U.K.'s MRC)
• Declaration of Helsinki
• The ENGAGE Guideline - Optional guideline for good clinical practice compliance and quality systems auditing [pdf] (European Forum for Good Clinical Practice)
• FDA Guidance for Institutional Review Boards and Clinical Investigators
• Health Ethics Archive (a "system for recording decisions of ethics committees and the reasoning underlying them...")
• Human Participant Protections: Education for Research Teams (U.S., N.I.H.)
• IRB Guidebook (U.S. Office of Human Research Protections)
• MRC Ethics Series (U.K.)
• National Institutes of Health - Clinical Trials Database
• Nuremberg Code
• On Being a Scientist: Responsible Conduct in Research
• Professional Ethics for Scientists: Annotated Bibliography
• Report of the Committee of Inquiry on the Case Involving Dr. Nancy Olivieri, the Hospital for Sick Children, the University of Toronto, and Apotex Inc.
• Ryan Commission Report, Integrity and Misconduct in Research, November 1995
• Teaching Research Ethics (an annotated bibliography)
• Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (Canada)
• 45 CFR 46 ("The Common Rule")

Articles On-Line:

• "AIDS vaccines: immune to quick success," by Jeffrey Kahn
  "Conflict of interest in research, education and patient care", Trudo Lemmens,  Peter A. Singer, CMAJ 1998;159:960-5.
• "Continuing review of approved research by Canadian Research Ethics Boards". Weijer C. Canadian Medical Association Journal 2001, 164: 1305-1308.
• "The ethical analysis of risk." Weijer C.  Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2000, 28: 344-361.
• "The ethics wars: disputes over international research." Weijer C, Anderson JA. Hastings Center Report 2001, 31(3): 18-20.
• "Guinea Pig Soldiers?" by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Pharmacoethics: Unblinding a clinical trial for individual gain," by Seymour Katz, Robert V. DiGregorio, Amy Wong, Alicia Williams and Florence Singh
• "Placebos: Deceptive benefits," by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Placebo trials and tribulations," by Charles Weijer
• Research ethics (Bioethics for clinicians 10) by Weijer C, Dickens B, Meslin E. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1997; 156: 1153-1157.
• "Shopping for clinical trials: New NIH Web site raises ethical issues," by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Sugar pills vs medicine: The ethics behind placebo-controlled trials," by Chris MacDonald (Parkhurst Exchange, January 2002)
• "Too Old to Benefit? Why are so Few Seniors in Cancer Research?" by Jeffrey Kahn
• "Using Short Writing Assignments in Teaching Research Ethics", by Kenneth D. Pimple
• "Using Small Group Assignments in Teaching Research Ethics," by Kenneth D. Pimple
• "Why clinical equipoise, and not the uncertainty principle, is the moral underpinning of the RCT". Weijer C, Glass KC, Shapiro S. British Medical Journal 2000; 321: 756-758.
• http://artnscience.us/Med_Ethics/index.html "A Brief History of Military Contributions to Ethical Standards for Research
  Involving Human Subjects"
  
   

Academic Centers:

• Centre for Research Ethics at Göteborg university
• Clinical Trials Research Group (at McGill University)
• Harvard University's Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research

Government Agencies & Committees:

• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (U.S. Department of Energy)
• Canadian Council on Animal Care
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Central Office for Research Ethics Committees (COREC)
• European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA)
• FDA - Food and Drug Administration (U.S.)
• Health Canada, Health Protection Branch, Therapeutic Products Programme
• Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) (Canada)
• Medical Research Council (U.K.)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
• Norway's National Committees for Research Ethics
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Research Ethics Page (U.S.)
• National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR) (Canada)
• National Human Genome Research Institute's Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics Research (U.S.)
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• Office for Protection from Research Risks (U.S.)
• Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) (U.S.)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Misc.:

• Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB)
• Inside HealthCare, ("your key to internet health care research")
• Doctors for Research Integrity
• Do No Harm; The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
• Ethics in Research: An Intensive Training Course
• Ethics in Science
• Human subjects and research ethics
• PRIM&R
• Institutional Review Board Services

Ethical Issues in HIV Vaccine Trials

by Thomas Kerns, Ph.D. St Martin's Press (Macmillan Ltd. in UK countries), © 1997

ONLINE: http://students.washington.edu/tkerns/evtsite/evt-toc.html

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