Unesco's proposed Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights - a bland compromise.

abstract：:Medical AID organisations such as Médecins Sans Frontières receive several requests from individuals and international academic institutions to conduct research at their implementation sites in Africa. Do AID agencies have an ethical duty to comply with research requests? In this paper we respond to the views and cons...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Zachariah R,Janssens V,Ford N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little published literature on the ethical concerns of stakeholders in HIV vaccine trials. This study explored the ethical challenges identified by various stakeholders, through an open-ended, in-depth approach. While the few previous studies have been largely quantitative, respondents in this study had the o...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Essack Z,Koen J,Barsdorf N,Slack C,Quayle M,Milford C,Lindegger G,Ranchod C,Mukuka R

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This article describes the types of community-wide benefits provided by investigators conducting public health research in South Asia as well as their self-reported reasons for providing such benefits. METHODS:We conducted 52 in-depth interviews to explore how public health investigators in low-resource set...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Taylor HA,Merritt MW

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to determine how stakeholder engagement can be adapted for the conduct of COVID-19-related clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa. Nine essential stakeholder engagement practices were reviewed: formative research; stakeholder engagement plan; communications and issues management plan; protocol ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Folayan MO,Brown B,Haire B,Babalola CP,Ndembi N

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other so-called 'parallel' practices in medicine, traditional medicine (TM) does not avoid criticism or even rejection. Nyika's article 'Ethical and Regulatory Issues Surrounding African Traditional Medicine in the Context of HIV/AIDS' looks at some of the issues from a traditional Western ethical perspective and...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： van Bogaert DK

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given its intimate relationship with the human body and its environment, biotechnology innovation, and more particularly stem cell research innovations as a part thereof, implicate diverse social and moral/ethical issues. This paper explores some of the most important and controversial moral concerns raised by human e...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Harmon SH

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This summary lays out the basic science and methodology used in genetic testing that investigates historical population migrations and the ancestry of living individuals. The genetic markers used in this testing, and the distinction between Y-chromosome, mitochondrial and autosomes analysis, are explained and the shor...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Johnston J,Thomas M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bene Israel is a Jewish community in western India whose origins are unknown from conventional sources. This paper discusses a genetic ancestry study that mapped Bene Israel genealogies and the impact of the study on the Bene Israel. ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Parfitt T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the novel Racists by Kunal Basu (2006), two competing scientists initiate an experiment that they believe will prove which race is superior. The research subjects, one white and one black infant, are sequestered on an isolated island in the care of a mute nurse. The contest must be waged in a 'natural laboratory' w...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Burns L,Lanoix M,Melnychuk RM,Pauly B

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last 20 years have seen a staggering growth in the practice of off-shoring clinical research to low-and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs), a growth that has been matched by the neoliberal policies adopted by host countries towards attracting trials to their shores. A recurring concern in this context is the ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Mitra AG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we describe the potential role laypersons on ethics committees can play in ensuring community concerns are addressed in the design and implementation of genomic research. We draw inferences from the outcome of an empirical study of the impact of training of laypersons to address community engagement iss...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Folayan MO,Oyedeji KS,Fatusi OA

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ethical analysis of Jordan's Clinical Research Law, which became effective in 2001, was performed. Accordingly, this paper discusses the major components, key strengths and weaknesses of this law. As an initial effort, the Law addresses important aspects of research ethics and, hence, should serve as an example for...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Ramahi I,Silverman H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of clinical and non-clinical biomedical practices, negligence is usually understood as a lapse of a specific professional duty by a healthcare worker or by a medical facility. This paper tries to delineate systemic negligence as another kind of negligence in the context of health systems, particularly i...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Chakraborti C

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many countries in Africa, and more generally those in the Global South with tropical areas, are plagued by illnesses that the wealthier parts of the world (mainly 'the West') neither suffer from nor put systematic effort into preventing, treating or curing. What does an ethic with a recognizably African pedigree entai...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Metz T

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney transplantation is a lifesaving medical treatment. However, very high demand for kidneys with low kidney donation causes a black market that exploits patients' desperation and donors' vulnerability. The current kidney donation programs fail to produce promising results to avoid illegal and unethical kidney traf...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Avci E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intensified nurse migration leads to severe problems for the health care systems in many developing countries. Using the Philippines as an example, this paper will address the question of global nurse migration from a philosophical perspective. John Rawls' liberal and Michael Walzer's communitarian theory of justi...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Kaelin L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research ethics training during post-graduate education is necessary to improve ethical standards in the design and conduct of biomedical research. We studied quality and quantity of research ethics training in the curricula of post-graduate programs in the medical science in I.R. Iran. We evaluated curricula of 125 p...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Nikravanfard N,Khorasanizadeh F,Zendehdel K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ebola epidemic in Western Africa has highlighted issues related to weak health systems, the politics of drug and vaccine development and the need for transparent and ethical criteria for use of scarce local and global resources during public health emergency. In this paper we explore two key themes. First, we argu...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Satalkar P,Elger BE,Shaw DM

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I give an account how the principle of 'respect for autonomy' dominates the field of bioethics, and how it came to triumph over its competitors, 'respect for persons' and 'respect for free power of choice'. I argue that 'respect for autonomy' is unsatisfactory as a basic principle of bioethics because it is grounded i...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Behrens KG

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the case of Rosa, a nine-year-old girl who was denied a therapeutic abortion, this article analyzes the role played by the social in medical practice. For that purpose, it compares the different application of two similar pieces of legislation in Costa Rica, where both the practice of abortion and sterilizati...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Carranza M

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this module is to cover ground that was not covered in-depth in any of the other modules, including: scientific misconduct, issues concerning the publication and ownership of research results (authorship guidelines - who is eligible to be considered an author, or contributor to a scientific paper etc....

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Schneider B,Schüklenk U

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One effect of late capitalism--the commodification of practically everything--is to knock down the Chinese walls between the natural and productive realms, to use a Marxist framework. Women's labour in egg extraction and 'surrogate' motherhood might then be seen as what it is, labour which produces something of value....

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Dickenson D

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric genetic research investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders with the aim of more effectively understanding, treating, or, ultimately, preventing such disorders. Given the challenges of recruiting research participants into such studies, the potential for long-term benefits of such research, an...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Palk AC,Bitta M,Kamaara E,Stein DJ,Singh I

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principle of informed refusal poses a specific problem when it is invoked by a pregnant woman who, in spite of having accepted her pregnancy, refuses the diagnostic and/or therapeutic measures that would ensure the well-being of her endangered fetus. Guidelines issued by professional bodies in the developed world ...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： van Bogaert LJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of animals in research cannot be over-emphasized. The use of animals for research and training in research centres, hospitals and schools is progressively increasing. Advances in biotechnology to improve animal productivity require animal research. Drugs being developed and new interventions or therap...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Seth M,Saguti F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Explaining technical terms in consent forms prior to seeking informed consent to recruit into trials can be challenging in developing countries, and more so when the studies are randomized controlled trials. This study was carried out to examine the opinions of researchers on ways of dealing with these chall...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Newton SK,Appiah-Poku J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The globalization of clinical research in the last two decades has led to a significant increase in the volume of clinical research in developing countries. As of 2016, Uganda was the third largest destination for clinical trials in Africa. This requires adequate capacity and systems to facilitate ethical pr...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Ochieng J,Mwaka E,Kwagala B,Sewankambo N

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, health systems research (HSR) is reviewed by the same ethical standards as clinical research, which has recently been argued in the literature to be an inappropriate standard of evaluation. The issues unique to HSR warrant a different review by research ethics committees (RECs), as it does not impose the sa...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Bachani AM,Rattani A,Hyder AA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the relationship between bioethics and the therapeutic standards in HIV prevention research in the developing world, focusing on the closure of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) trials in the early 2000s. I situate the PrEP trials in the historical context of the vertical transmission debates o...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Haire BG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the ethical considerations in a case of a 12-year-old girl seeking an abortion in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in early 2020. The physician denied the girl care and did not refer her to a qualified provider, citing the illegality of such actions. Though abortion is illegal in Guatemala, enforcement of...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Altshuler E

更新日期：2020-08-02 00:00:00