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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
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Hersch, Gil – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2018
Some advances in bioethics regarding ethical considerations that arise in the context of medical research can also be relevant when thinking about the ethical considerations that arise in the context of SoTL research. In this article, I aim to bring awareness to two potential ethical challenges SoTL researchers might face when playing a dual role…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Ethics, Medical Research, Biology
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Graham, S. Scott – Written Communication, 2021
This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Epidemiology, Medical Research
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Zhang, Luqing; Wang, Yunfeng; Xiao, Ming; Han, Qunying; Ding, Jiong – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2008
Universities and medical schools in China are faced with an ongoing shortage of cadavers for education and research because of insufficient numbers of cadaver donations. This article will examine the main obstacles to cadaver donation in the Chinese culture. These include superstitious traditional views about the body, a lack of legislation…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Medical Research, Medical Schools
Gorovitz, Samuel – Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1978
Physicians are in positions to make decisions on which lives depend. The question of who should be making decisions concerning medical research and practice is a moral issue. The problems of medical ethics concern such concepts as autonomy, burden of proof, coercion, informed consent, paternalism, and diminished capacity. (SW)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Ethics, Higher Education, Individual Power
Bickel, Janet – 1993
This guide compiles information reported by medical schools on their efforts to help students develop a sound code of professional ethics. The introduction opens with background information on an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 1992 survey of medical schools and on why it is imperative that schools assist medical students' ethical…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Codes of Ethics, Curriculum Development, Ethical Instruction