Ethical Intersections: Health research, methods and researcher responsibility - Softcover

Daly, Jeanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1864480505 ISBN 13: 9781864480504

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

The ethics of health research has become a contentious issue at the same time as it has aroused enormous interest. Everybody agrees that 'bad apples' in the research community have to be brought into line, but how is this to be done? Researchers, clinicians and consumers differ in their views of what is to count as ethical research because of different backgrounds, different needs and different experiences. When they meet, and conflict, in universities and hospitals, this constitutes the ethical intersection which faces all health researchers in the world today.

Ethical Intersections focuses on the various ways in which researchers from different backgrounds balance method with ethical responsibility in their research. It brings together contributions from an international team of health researchers in fields as diverse as laboratory research, clinical care, the social sciences and consumer research.

Ethical Intersections is essential reading for all health researchers, for anyone called upon to judge the ethical content of a research proposal and for postgraduate students in the health sciences.

About this title

About the Author

Jeanne Daly is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She teaches in public health, medical sociology and research methods, and is co-editor of Researching Health Care (Routledge 1992).

Contributors include Gordon Guyatt, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University, Canada; Alvan Feinstein, Sterling Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology in the School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven; Howard Waitzkin, practising clinician at the North Orange County Community Clinic in Los Angeles; and Judith Lumley from Oxford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1864480505
• ISBN 13: 9781864480504
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280