Emerging technologies and developing countries: stem cell research regulation and Argentina.

abstract：:The latest (June 2005) draft of UNESCO's proposed Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights is a major disappointment. The committee of government 'experts' that produced it made sure that it would not introduce any new obligations for States, and so the document simply restates existing agreements and lists...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Williams JR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four key guidance points in the UNAIDS guidance document, Ethical Considerations in HIV Preventive Vaccine Research, are compared with analogous statements in three other recently issued documents dealing with international research. Those documents are: the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in 2000; the report of t...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Macklin R

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：: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：:Stem cell tourism is a small but growing part of the thriving global medical tourism marketplace. Much stem cell research remains at the experimental stage, with clinical trials still uncommon. However, there are over 700 clinics estimated to be operating in mostly developing countries--from Costa Rica and Argentina t...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Einsiedel EF,Adamson H

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Compared with data that is initially collected for research purposes, the mandatory authorization of a government database for secondary use deserves greater scrutiny because it consists of information that is collected initially for administrative purposes. Using the case of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) D...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Yeh MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：: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：: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：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: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：: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：:Since the development of assisted reproductive technologies, infertile individuals have crossed borders to obtain treatments unavailable or unaffordable in their own country. Recent media coverage has focused on the outsourcing of surrogacy to developing countries, where the cost for surrogacy is significantly less th...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Humbyrd C

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Obtaining 'informed consent' from every individual participant involved in health research is a mandatory ethical practice. Informed consent is a process whereby potential participants are genuinely informed about their role, risk and rights before they are enrolled in the study. Thus, ethics committees in most countr...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Regmi PR,Aryal N,Kurmi O,Pant PR,van Teijlingen E,Wasti SP

更新日期：2017-08-01 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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Unlike other countries in South Asia, in Nepal research in the health sector has a relatively recent history. Most health research activities in the country are sponsored by international collaborative assemblages of aid agencies and universities. Data from Nepal Health Research Council shows that, officially, 1,212 h...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Sharma JR,Khatri R,Harper I

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：: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：:Due to the financial pressure caused by cutbacks in funding and the race to achieve higher university rankings, researchers are competing for limited funds. These funds enable researchers to contribute to the scientific enterprise and to secure better positions. Given this pressure, there is a need to understand how a...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Olesen AP,Amin L,Mahadi Z,Ibrahim M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The impending implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has prompted complicated bioethical and public health ethics concerns regarding the moral distribution of antiretroviral medications (ARVs) to ostensibly healthy populations as a form of HIV prevention when millions of HIV-positive people still lack acces...

journal_title：Developing world bioethics

authors： Fiereck K

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：: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