Many people with dementia are interested in taking part in research, including when they no longer have capacity to provide informed consent. Advance research directives (ARD) enable people to ...

Human challenge trials to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates against SARS?CoV?2, the novel coronavirus behind Covid?19, could save considerable time and many lives. But they may initially seem ...

The current sociopolitical climate has made science a contested terrain. Polemical rhetoric and attempts to subordinate science to ideology are not only compromising research integrity, but also ...

The commercial spaceflight industry is expanding opportunities for scientific research in space, but the industry needs clear ethical guidelines before human research is ready for liftoff. In a new ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

There are long-established guidelines proscribing the publication of articles based on scientific experiments or trials that fail to protect the rights of human research subjects. But, as an article ...

IRB: Ethics & Human Research explores issues in research with human subjects, including findings and analyses of empirical studies. Six issues are published each year, containing scholarly articles ...

If all researchers were required to serve time on an ethics committee, not only would the system look entirely different, human research subjects might get greater protection.

IRB: Ethics & Human Research explores issues in research with human subjects, including findings and analyses of empirical studies. Six issues are published each year, containing scholarly articles ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...