Putting ethics to good use Putting ethics to good use Ethics in medical research. A handbook of good practice.
Ethics are an inescapable component of best-practice medical research.
The way in which ethical principles can be incorporated into contemporary biomedical research is currently the subject of much vigorous debate and some controversy. Ethics in medical research admirably plugs this breach. Although aimed at researchers in the United Kingdom, the themes are relevant to researchers throughout the Western world. The style is reader-friendly and, as scientific advisor to the Tayside committee on medical research ethics and an honorary lecturer in epidemiology and public health medicine at the University of Dundee, the author is admirably suited to write such a text. This book will be a great asset to the many thousands of volunteers, medically qualified or not, who sit on institutional ethics committees monitoring biomedical research in Australia today.