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Bin it or pin it? Which professional ethical guidance on managing COVID-19 should I follow?
Judgments can and should be informed (and constrained) by guidance, and hopefully these preliminary observations on the current ethical guidance on managing COVID-19 will provide some useful pointers for time-pressed professionals.
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How do 66 European institutional review boards approve one protocol for an international prospective observational study on traumatic brain injury? Experiences from the CENTER-TBI study
A review of IRB documents found variations in the procedures between and within European countries. There were differences in submission and approval requirements, number of review rounds and total duration.
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Structural coercion in the context of community engagement in global health research conducted in a low resource setting in Africa
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A practical approach to the ethical use of memory modulating technologies
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Study of laboratory staff’ knowledge of biobanking in Côte d’Ivoire
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Human germline editing in the era of CRISPR-Cas: risk and uncertainty, inter-generational responsibility, therapeutic legitimacy
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Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists
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The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?
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Human cloning laws, human dignity and the poverty of the policy making dialogue
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Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal
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Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
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Aims and scope
BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.
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- Anne Menard, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Clare McFadden, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Janelle Coore, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Yvonne Denier, University of Leuven
- Beatrice Godard, University of Montreal
- Anita Ho, University of British Columbia
- Richard Huxtable, University of Bristol
- Jonathan Ives, The University of Birmingham
- Stuart Nicholls, University of Ottawa
- Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University
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A collection of books, journal articles and magazine content that amplifies Black voices and the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read MoreAnita Ho, Section Editor
Anita Ho is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been Section Editor for the 'Ethics in biomedical research' section of BMC Medical Ethics since August 2015.
Announcing the launch of In Review
BMC Medical Ethics, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
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