Balanced Ethics Review: A Guide for Institutional Review Board Members [Paperback]

This manual will help Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) conduct ethics review that balances the major moral considerations in research with human subjects. Current challenges in the IRB environment are addressed with arguments and insights from dozens of scholars. Useful to the IRB member at any level of experience, Balanced Ethics Review provides the necessary tools needed to create a systemic blueprint for promoting the research and dissemination of scientists and scholars within the standard norms of regulation.

Table of Contents

 

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

 

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1        Overview

1.2        Ethics and the IRB

1.3        IRB Process

1.4        Evaluating Biomedical Research

1.5        Consent in Biomedical Research

1.6        The Social Sciences

1.7        Biomedical Research Topics

1.8        FDA and OHRP

1.9        The Future

 

Chapter 2. Ethics and the IRB

2.1    Your Influential Position