Research Ethics
Links
AIDS in AFRICA ELSI repository
http://www.developing-world-bioethics.org
site contains comprehensive information on ethical, legal, social issues of HIV/AIDS in Africa. substantial folders on clinical trials, vacccine trials, research ethics, research regulation
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
http://www.aecom.yu.edu/crtp/resethics
A research ethics course presented by Dr. Ruth Macklin, Professor of bioethics in the department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine.
APA Ethics Office
American Psychological Association sanctioned resources for ethics in psychology, including guidelines for human and animal studies, rules and procedures, and ethical principles.
Bioethics Division at Wits Medical School - Resources: Research Ethics
http://www.wits.ac.za/bioethics/research.htm
Links providing resources on international research ethics, animal experimentation, general research ethics
Chesapeake Research Review, Inc.
An commercial organisation providing ethics and scientific review of clinical studies. Also offers consultation and training to IRBs.
Circare
Citizens for Responsible Care and Research is an independent non-profit human research protection advocacy agency.
Clinical Research in Developing Countries
http://www.wits.ac.za/bioethics/replytolie.pdf
Udo Schuklenk criticises in Journal of medical ethics policy proposals from the US NIH sugggesting that lower than best proven standards of care might be acceptable in clinical trials in the developing world.
David J. Rothman: The Shame of Medical Research
http://nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20001130060F
Rothman article from The New York Review of Books.
DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments
The U.S. Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects.
DOE Protecting Human Subjects
http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/humsubj/hsindex.html
Ethics regulations, guidelines and resources for employees of the U.S. Department of Energy.