Biomedical Ethics

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Ann Mills is Assistant Professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Virginia, where she is co-director of the Program on Ethics and Policy in Healthcare Systems. 

Despite the extensive experience with biomedical ethics, the infrastructure of institutional review boards (IRBs), and the equivalent for protection of human subjects (Schulte et al. 1997 but see Soskolne 1997), it is essential to address questions of ethics that may be particular to the design of biomonitoring studies. In this section, the committee considers some practical and research issues in biomonitoring ethics but makes no pretense that the list is exhaustive. Ethical issues can stop specific studies, and the field in general, dead in their tracks. Therefore, it is incumbent on investigators, policy-makers, and others to consider these issues carefully. 

Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. 2001. Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 5th ed., New York Oxford University Press. 

Beauchamp, T. L., Childress, J. F. (2001). Principles of biomedical ethics (5th ed.). Oxford, UK Oxford University Press. 

Beauchamp, T.L. Childress, J.F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 4th Ed. Oxford University Press New York, 1994. 

T.L. Beauchamp and J.F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 1989. 

The most common exception is that some such courses include exploration of some biomedical ethical issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, and organ transplantation. 

The Institute of Medicine established a Committee to Review Adverse Effects of Vaccines, including 18 high-ranked members representing various disciplines, such as autoimmune diseases, biomedical ethics,... 

Humber, James M., and Robert F. Almeder, eds. Biomedical Ethics Reviews Stem Cell Research. Totowa, N.J. Humana Press, 2004. A collection of oljective essays reviewing the principle arguments for and against stem cell research and whether this type of work violates the rights of human emhryos. 

Espejo, Roman, ed. Biomedical Ethics Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 2003. 

The academic field of engineering ethics developed in the US in the early 1970s with other inquiry concerning issues of practical and professional ethics. Perhaps biomedical ethics was earliest to gain both scholarly and public interest engineering and research ethics soon followed. ... 

Vallero, D. A. (2007). Biomedical ethics for engineers Ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering. Amsterdam/Boston Elsevier/Academic. 

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