Ethical and Legal Issues

Cohen JC, Illingworth P, Schukienk U, eds. The Power of Pills Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing, and Pricing, Pluto, London, 2006. 

The increased awareness of ethical issues relating to human research has led to the release in 2002 of the Human Research Ethics Handbook, including detailed commentary on the national statement and discussion of ethical and legal issues, to further assist H RECs to assess and facilitate the ethical conduct of research involving human participants, and resolve the challenges encountered during this process. 

Social, ethical, and legal issues in drug development, marketing, and pricing policies setting priorities pharmaceuticals as private organizations and the duty to make money/ maximize profits... 

Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing, and Pricing... 

DiMasi JA, Hansen RUS, Grabowski, HG. 2003. The price of innovation new estimates of drug development costs. J. Health Econ. 22 151-158. Mastroianni AC, Faden R, Federman D (eds). (1994). Women and Health Research Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies. Academy Press. 

Women and Health Research Ethical and Legal Issues of Including Women in Clinical Studies Academy Press. 

Answers to the questions why RE is needed and what is its role in Concurrent Engineering can be found in Sect. 12.2, accompanied with related studies. The RE process, data acquisition process and the most common non-contact scanning methods are described in Sect. 12.3. Importance of material characteristics, durability and life limitations are given in Sect. 12.4. Tools for RE, especially software tools for data processing, are presented in Sect. 12.5. Section 12.6 presents applications of the RE methods in different areas automotive industry, railways, machinery, architecture, archaeology and medicine. Ethical and legal issues considering RE are discussed in Sect. 12.7, followed by brief conclusions and an outlook. 

Prout, S. M., DeMartino, R. A., Prout, H. T. (1999). Ethical and legal issues in psychological interventions with children and adolescents. In H. T. Prout D. T. Brown (Eds.), Counseling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents Theory and practice for school and clinical settings [3rd ed., pp. 26-48). New York Wiley. 

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