Ethics and Integrity in Health and Life Sciences Research
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Introduction: Research Production in Life Sciences; Zvonimir Koporc Chapter 1. Promoting Equity and Preventing Exploitation in International Research: The aims, work and output of the TRUST project; Julie Cook, Kate Chatfield & Doris Schroeder Chapter 2. Ebola Virus Disease: A lesson in science and ethics; Nicola Petrosillo & Rok Čivljak Chapter 3. Ethics Challenges in the Digital Era: Focus on medical research; Albena Kuyumdzhieva Chapter 4. Big Data in Healthcare and the Life Sciences; Janet Mifsud & Cristina Gavrilovici Chapter 5. Shaping a Culture of Safety and Security in Research on Emerging Technologies: Time to move beyond ‘simple compliance’ ethics; Monique Ischi & Johannes Rath Chapter 6. Governing Gene Editing in the European Union: Legal and ethical considerations; Mihalis Kritiko Chapter 7. The ARRIGE Project; Francois Hirsch & Lluis Montoliu Chapter 8. Dual Use in Neuroscientific and Neurotechnological Research: A need for ethical address and guidance; James Giordano & Kathinka Evers Chapter 9. Ethical Challenges of Informed Consent, Decision-Making Capacity and Vulnerability in Clinical Dementia Research; Pablo Hernández-Marrero, Sandra Martins Pereira, Joana Araújo & Ana Sofia Carvalh Chapter 10. Diet Therapy - Effective Treatment but also Ethical and Moral Responsibility; Jasenka Gajdoš Kljusuri Chapter 11. The Mismatch of Nutrition and ‘Medical Practice’: The wayward science of nutrition in human health; T Colin Campbell & T Nelson Campbell
This volume compiles 11 essays by bioethics, medical, and other researchers from Europe and the US, who explore ethics and integrity in health and life sciences research. They address the work of the TRUST project towards counteracting the practice of ethics dumping through the development of tools for the improvement of research governance structures; lessons learned from care of patients with the Ebola virus; ethical challenges in the digital era; ethical aspects relating to big data; governance approaches to safety and security in research in relation to emerging technologies; governing gene editing in the European Union; the responsible and ethical use of genome editing technologies; ethical issues in dual-use brain science; the ethical challenges of informed consent, decision-making capacity, and vulnerability in clinical dementia research; ethical and moral responsibility in diet therapy research; and the mismatch of the science of nutrition and medical practice.