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Ethics vs economics: the cost of outsourcing clinical trials to developing countries
On Human Experiments – As demand grows for newer and better drugs for an expanding range of conditions, so too does the need for clinical testing.
Most of us don’t read the social media small print – and it’s a data goldmine for third parties
On Human Experiments – behavioural research is now big online, and you're likely to be part of it whether you know it or not.
The rise of cognitive enhancers is a mass social experiment
On Human Experiments – Are we all just lab rats in a big smart drugs experiment?
Why we shouldn’t always compensate people for historical wrongs
On Human Experiments - Should there be compensatio when evidence of unethical research is uncovered long after the event?
How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors
The horrors of slavery also spread to research: black bodies provided easy targets for medical experiments.
Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?
On Human Experiments - The Nazi experiments during World War II were among the most egregious instances of unethical human research. But does that mean we can't use the data they generated?
Two steps forward, one step back: how World War II changed how we do human research
The horror of the human experiments by Nazi doctors led to the Nuremberg Code but the international declaration it inspired was watered down for political purposes.
Even without written codes, ethical standards for human research existed before World War II
On Human Experiments – The impact of World War II on the development of human research ethics often overshadows the fascinating history and evolution of what came before.
Human experiments – the good, the bad, and the ugly
The first part of our series On Human Experiments looks at the parameters of human research and its ethical bounds.
How national security gave birth to bioethics
On Human Experiments: what lies behind some of the most shocking human experiments in recent history? Here's a clue: most of it took place during wartime or when war seemed like a real threat.
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Bioethics and Director of VELiM, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Media, Journalism and Communication, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Horizon Digital Economy, UnBias, University of Nottingham
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Senior Lecturer in Ethics, Keele University
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Criminology, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Lecturer in 19th and 20th-century North American History, University of Liverpool
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Coventry University
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