Ethics committees are not enough

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ID20142979
AuthorsSven Ove Hansson (0000-0003-0071-3919, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume90
Issue4
Pages357-360
Publication date2024-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/theo.12553
OpenAlexW4401736206
LanguageEN
References cited20

Two major discussions on research ethics emerged in the aftermath of World War 2 (WW2).One of them concerned the outcomes of scientific research.It focused on dangerous knowledge, as exemplified by the atomic bomb.This discussion was largely led by physicists and led to the foundation in 1945 of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.The other major ethical discussion concerned unethical research activities, in particular maltreatment of human experimental subjects.This discussion was largely triggered by the revelations of atrocities in the German concentration and extermination camps (Lifton, 1986).The Nuremberg code, which emerged from trials against physicians who performed these murderous experiments, had a considerable influence in the post-war development of codes and regulations intended to ensure voluntariness and safety in human experimentation.(Equally heinous human experiments were performed by the Japanese army, but these crimes were much less discussed and had less impact on the development of research ethics [Harris, 1994].)

Engineering ethics · Political science · Engineering · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice

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