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Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda

Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda • • • PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 2009 1–6 1 Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson One plausible way to structure a narrative about the ori- Research Regulations: Limits and gin and development of medical ethics is to see much of Problems it as a commentary on the ethical issues that have arisen in biomedical research with human subjects over the last Since the middle of the twentieth century much energy 75 years. Whilst it is obvious that for medical progress has been invested in the development, specification and to occur scientific studies involving human subjects are implementation of regulations for scientific studies with necessary, research ethics tends to focus on the exam- human beings. The relevant list is a long one, but key ples in which vulnerable persons were harmed, or other documents are the Nuremberg Code (1949), the Decla- moral problems arose. It is important to see that contro- ration of Helsinki (1964, revised 2008) and the CIOMS versial studies are not limited to the work of malevolent International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research ‘scientists’ like Josef Mengele, but are often carried out Involving Human Subjects (2002). In http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Health Ethics Oxford University Press

Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda

Verweij, Marcel; Dawson, Angus
Public Health Ethics , Volume 2 (1) – Apr 1, 2009
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The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org
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Editorial
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1754-9973
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1754-9981
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• • • PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS VOLUME 2 NUMBER 1 2009 1–6 1 Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson One plausible way to structure a narrative about the ori- Research Regulations: Limits and gin and development of medical ethics is to see much of Problems it as a commentary on the ethical issues that have arisen in biomedical research with human subjects over the last Since the middle of the twentieth century much energy 75 years. Whilst it is obvious that for medical progress has been invested in the development, specification and to occur scientific studies involving human subjects are implementation of regulations for scientific studies with necessary, research ethics tends to focus on the exam- human beings. The relevant list is a long one, but key ples in which vulnerable persons were harmed, or other documents are the Nuremberg Code (1949), the Decla- moral problems arose. It is important to see that contro- ration of Helsinki (1964, revised 2008) and the CIOMS versial studies are not limited to the work of malevolent International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research ‘scientists’ like Josef Mengele, but are often carried out Involving Human Subjects (2002). In

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