Bioethics

Bioethics is a discipline that deals with the moral issues of biological research and its application in medicine. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in its 2005 Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights addresses ethical issues related to medicine, life sciences, and associated technologies as applied to human beings. The aim of the declaration is to provide a universal framework of principles and procedures 

Source Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. FDA Generic Drugs Final Rule and Initiative, FDA, Rockville, MD, 2003. http //www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/generics/default.htm [accessed September 21,2007]. 

Source Wickware R Resurrecting the resurrection drug, Nature Medicine 8 908-909 (2002). 

In many areas, bioethics will continue to pose vexing questions that communities and governments must face. In September 2007, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) of the United Kingdom approved the research of hybrid embryos, which involves the insertion of human DNA 

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Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine Institute for Bioethics,... 

Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine Director, Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law University of Louisville, School of Medicine Louisville, KY... 

Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law University of Louisville School of Medicine... 

At the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville, my colleague Gabriela Alcalde helped me in conceptualizing the key issues and also took the lead in drafting two articles we coauthored on the topic. Dr. Mary Anderlik coauthored a paper with me on genetic research in which pharmacogenomics was a key element. Dr. Carl Hornung of the Department of Medicine contributed indispensable data analysis on the survey and coauthored Chapter 1 of this volume. 

Larry I. Palmer, LL.B., Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY C.E. Reeder, Ph.D., Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC John A. Robertson, J.D., School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Mark A. Rothstein, J.D., Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY... 

Our survey consisted of randomly dialed telephone interviews of 1796 individuals across the country performed by Telesurveys Research Associates of Houston, Texas, under contract with the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. The research was funded by the following three Institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute of General Medical Sciences (lead institute),... 

The Project s Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) program became the world s largest bioethics program and a model for other ELSI programs worldwide. 

Bioethics Access to published hterature on the ethical, legal, and public policy issues surrounding healthcare and biomedical research. This information is provided in conjunction with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics located at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. httpvywww.nlm.nih.gov/databases/databases bioethics.html... 

POL.ll. I. Prigogine, Environmental Ethics in a time of Bounded Rationality, 6th CEC Summit Conference on Bioethics, Brussels, 1989 (CEC Luxembourg 1990). 

CIOMS is associated with safety, providing various forms such as the form normally used to report SAEs (CIOMS 1) but also many other types of forms, for example, CIOMS 11 for the international reporting of periodic drug-safety update reports. The council is active as a medium for international discussion on safety and bioethics (see Chapter 15). 

Mary E. Davis and Mark J. Reasor 8. Contemporary Bioethical Issues in... 

Contemporary Bioethical Issues in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Research... 

The principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice form a foundation for analysis of ethical quandaries. In addition, a comprehensive ethical analysis will include considerations of cultural and reh-gious diversity of patient-subjects, health care providers and interpersonal relationships an assessment of the profession-based duties and obligations of the health care professionals, including an examination of relevant professional oaths and codes and an analysis of relevantly similar previous bioethical dilemmas. 

National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) (1998) Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity, http //www.bioethics.gov. 

Do you think that the construction of minimal cells may give rise to possible hazards and bioethical problems ... 

Dr Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Section for Learning and Bioethics, Food and Resource Economics Institute, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Rolighedsvej 26, Frederiksberg C 1958, Denmark. Tel +45 35 283 432, Fax +45 35 283 709, Email sri kvl.dk... 

In Part V, we examine research and ethics. Increasingly, clinical research is undertaken in multi-center studies involving numerous countries and jurisdictions. Argentinian bioethicist Florencia Luna, a past president of the International Association of Bioethics, introduces one of the major issues debated in recent years in international research ethics in this context, namely the question of what constitutes appropriate standards of care for participating patients. The line taken by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and many American bioethicists has been that it is acceptable for developed world sponsors of such trials to provide less than the best proven therapeutic means of treatment to the trial participants. Developed world-based bioethicists do not always agree and Luna explains why. 

Animal research (ethical issues) Bioethics and clinical research... 

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