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Murdock, Melanie; Erickson, Stephanie – Research Ethics, 2023
When engaging in community-based research, it is important to consider ethical research practices throughout the project. While current research practices require many investigators to obtain approval from an ethics review board before starting a project, more is required to ensure that ethical principles are applied once the investigations begin…
Descriptors: Research, Ethics, Feminism, Research Projects
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Gwen Lemey; Trésor Zola; Ynke Larivière; Solange Milolo; Engbu Danoff; Lazarre Bakonga; Emmanuel Esanga; Peter Vermeiren; Vivi Maketa; Junior Matangila; Patrick Mitashi; Pierre Van Damme; Jean-Pierre Van geertruyden; Raffaella Ravinetto; Hypolite Muhindo-Mavoko – Research Ethics, 2024
In this paper, we discuss challenges associated with implementing a policy for Ancillary Care (AC) for related and unrelated (serious) adverse events during an Ebola vaccine trial conducted in a remote area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Conducting clinical trials in resource-constrained settings can raise context-related challenges that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Communicable Diseases, Researchers
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Podschuweit, Nicole – Research Ethics, 2021
This paper aims to bring into the ethical debate on covert research two aspects that are neglected to date: the perspective of the research subjects and the special responsibility of investigators towards their observers. Both aspects are falling behind, especially in quantitative social research. From a methodological point of view, quantitative…
Descriptors: Ethics, Observation, Responsibility, Research Assistants
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Wheeldon, Johannes; Heidt, Jon – Research Ethics, 2023
Despite growing evidence to the contrary, researchers continue to posit causal links between cannabis, crime, psychosis, and violence. These spurious connections are rooted in history and fueled decades of structural limitations that shaped how researchers studied cannabis. Until recently, research in this area was explicitly funded to link…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Research, Social Influences, Social Bias
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Giulia Inguaggiato; Claudia Pallise Perello; Petra Verdonk; Linda Schoonmade; Pamela Andanda; Mariette van den Hoven; Natalie Evans – Research Ethics, 2024
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic globally disrupted lives and contributed to the exacerbation of pre-existing inequalities. Women in research were also affected. The prominent role that women played in professional and personal care duties had a detrimental effect on their research outputs, potentially hindering their career progression.…
Descriptors: Experience, Females, Researchers, COVID-19
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Gelfand, Scott D. – Research Ethics, 2019
In this essay, I suggest that a slightly modified version of Freedman's formulation of the clinical equipoise requirement is justified. I begin this essay with a brief discussion of the equipoise requirement. In the second and third sections, I discuss several objections to the clinical equipoise requirement as well as two attempts to justify the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Medical Research, Physician Patient Relationship, Parent Child Relationship