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Section edited by Beatrice Godard and Anita Ho
This section will include manuscripts that consider ethical aspects of research in biological and medical sciences, as well as ethical implications of new technologies, -omics research, and human enhancement. Manuscripts addressing researcher behavior are also welcome in this section.
Debate
Research into personal health data holds great potential not only for improved treatment but also for economic growth. In these years many countries are developing policies aimed at facilitating such research ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:53
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research article
The increased use of information technology in every day health care creates vast amounts of stored health data that can be used for research. The secondary research use of routinely collected data raises ques...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:51
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research article
The informed-consent process should be one of meaningful information exchange between researchers and study participants. One of the responsibilities of research ethics committees is to oversee appropriate inf...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:50
Published on: 14 August 2017
Research article
The conduct of research in settings affected by disasters such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes is challenging, particularly when infrastructures and resources were already limited pre-disaster. However, ...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:44
Published on: 28 June 2017
Debate
Between 2013 and 2016, West Africa experienced the largest ever outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease. In the absence of registered treatments or vaccines to control this lethal disease, the World Health Organizatio...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:43
Published on: 26 June 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:45
Debate
Ethical issues related to comparative effectiveness research, or research that compares existing standards of care, have recently received considerable attention. In this paper we focus on how Ethics Review Commi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:42
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research article
There is currently no consensus from the relevant stakeholders regarding the operational and construct definitions of child assent for research. As such, the requirements for assent are often construed in diff...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:41
Published on: 9 June 2017
Research article
Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is reportedly the most effective therapy for relapsing Clostridium Difficile infection (CDI) and a potential therapeutic option for many diseases. It also poses important et...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:39
Published on: 31 May 2017
Debate
This article explores the reasons in favour of revising and extending the current 14-day statutory limit to maintaining human embryos in culture. This limit is enshrined in law in over a dozen countries, inclu...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:38
Published on: 30 May 2017
Research Article
Obtaining prospective written consent from women to participate in trials when they are experiencing an obstetric emergency is challenging. Alternative consent pathways, such as gaining verbal consent at enrol...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:36
Published on: 24 May 2017
Research article
There is ambiguity with regard to what counts as an acceptable level of risk in clinical research in pregnant women and there is no input from stakeholders relative to such research risks. The aim of our paper...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:35
Published on: 15 May 2017
Research article
Researchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this c...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:34
Published on: 11 May 2017
Research article
Biobanks and biospecimen collections are becoming a primary means of delivering personalized diagnostics and tailoring individualized therapeutics. This shift towards precision medicine (PM) requires interacti...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:32
Published on: 2 May 2017
Debate
Despite the growing recognition for the need to improve the health of prisoners in Canada and the need for health research, there has been little discussion of the ethical issues with regards to health researc...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:31
Published on: 27 April 2017
Research article
Robust technology infrastructure is needed to enable learning health care systems to improve quality, access, and cost. Such infrastructure relies on the trust and confidence of individuals to share their heal...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:25
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
As thousands of healthy research participants are being included in small and large imaging studies, it is essential that dilemmas raised by the detection of incidental findings are adequately handled. Current...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:10
Published on: 6 February 2017
Research article
The introduction of genomics and biobanking methodologies to the African research context has also introduced novel ways of doing science, based on values of sharing and reuse of data and samples. This shift r...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:8
Published on: 2 February 2017
Research article
Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible approaches to accom...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:4
Published on: 25 January 2017
Debate
Biobanks are considered to be key infrastructures for research development and have generated a lot of debate about their ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI). While the focus has been on human genomi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2017 18:1
Published on: 11 January 2017
Debate
Precision medicine promises to develop diagnoses and treatments that take individual variability into account. According to most specialists, turning this promise into reality will require adapting the establi...
BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:67
Published on: 4 November 2016
