Does science need bioethicists? Ethics and science collaboration in biomedical research

Kerasidou, Angeliki; Parker, Michael

doi:10.1177/1747016114554252

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“…‘For institutions, it is a matter of creating an environment that promotes responsible conduct by embracing standards of excellence, trustworthiness, and lawfulness that inform institutional practices.’(2002) Particularly, demonstrating great interest in promoting ethical research, for example by incorporating a dedicated ethics team into their system, could play an important role in promoting professional integrity and consequently, public trust. By giving appropriate attention to the ethical component of research and by dedicating resources for the investigation and analysis of ethical issues, it would communicate to the potential partners and participants that ethics is not just a formality but a core component of their professional character (Kerasidou and Parker 2014 ). But most importantly, institutions should openly and demonstrably support and uphold their social role.…”

Section: Implications For Biomedical Research: the Importance Of Profmentioning

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Trust me, I’m a researcher!: The role of trust in biomedical research

Kerasidou

2016

Med Health Care and Philos

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In biomedical research lack of trust is seen as a great threat that can severely jeopardise the whole biomedical research enterprise. Practices, such as informed consent, and also the administrative and regulatory oversight of research in the form of research ethics committees and Institutional Review Boards, are established to ensure the protection of future research subjects and, at the same time, restore public trust in biomedical research. Empirical research also testifies to the role of trust as one of the decisive factors in research participation and lack of trust as a barrier for consenting to research. However, what is often missing is a clear definition of trust. This paper seeks to address this gap. It starts with a conceptual analysis of the term trust. It compares trust with two other related terms, those of reliance and trustworthiness, and offers a defence of Baier’s attribute of ‘good will’ a basic characteristic of trust. It, then, proceeds to consider trust in the context of biomedical research by examining two questions: First, is trust necessary in biomedical research?; and second, do increases in regulatory oversight of biomedical research also increase trust in the field? This paper argues that regulatory oversight is important for increasing reliance in biomedical research, but it does not improve trust, which remains important for biomedical research. It finishes by pointing at professional integrity as a way of promoting trust and trustworthiness in this field.

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Section: Implications For Biomedical Research: the Importance Of Profmentioning

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Trust me, I’m a researcher!: The role of trust in biomedical research

Kerasidou

2016

Med Health Care and Philos

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“…En particular sobre lo relacionado con DD. HH., se reconocen nuevos campos de investigación sobre cuestiones bioéticas en salud 20 , es así como en estudios previos también se ha demostrado mayor conocimiento en torno a la bioética y los aportes a la investigación 21, 22 , en particular en el campo de la salud pública. Por otra parte, también se reconoce la bioética, desde sus elementos periféricos, con cognemas como: principios, moral, dignidad humana, equidad, valores, respeto, conducta humana, normas, justicia, consentimiento, comité, aspectos ya documentados en estudios previos 23, 24 .…”

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Representaciones sociales de Bioética en epidemiólogos en formación

Mendieta-Izquierdo,

Gómez-González,

Chávez-Díaz

2023

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Introducción: la formación en bioética de los epidemiólogos repercute favorablemente en la salud de las comunidades, contribuye a la toma de decisiones éticas y ayuda a promover resultados sanitarios equitativos para todas las poblaciones. Objetivo: identificar las representaciones sociales –RS- de bioética en estudiantes de la especialización en epidemiología de una universidad en Pereira Risaralda, Colombia. Método: estudio cualitativo desde el enfoque teórico de la antropología cognitiva mediante el análisis procesual, prototípico y estructural de las Representaciones Sociales a través de técnicas asociativas: listado libre y cuestionario de comparación de pares para consolidar el contenido, la organización y representación gráfica de la RS de 17 estudiantes de especialización en epidemiología. Resultados: para los participantes la RS sobre Bioética gira en torno a la ética por la vida y respeto por los derechos humanos en su núcleo central, los aspectos que establecen los elementos periféricos de la representación se constituye en principios, moral, equidad, respeto y normas. Conclusiones: la RS de bioética en los epidemiólogos en formación es comprendida de manera amplia como una rama de la ética desde una perspectiva de derechos y de respeto a la vida.

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“…First, ELSI research has its roots in bioethics, which, although multidisciplinary from the start, was dominated by ethicists and moral theologians due to a "triggering" by moral questions 5 and scandals 6 in the 1950s/60s (Jonsen 2004;Kerasidou and Parker 2014). This shaped the landscape of later discussions and lead to the identification of "philosophical analysis" with "ethical analysis" in research on the normative questions in the life sciences.…”

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Integrating Philosophy of Science into Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Life Sciences

Lohse

Wasmer

Reydon

2020

Perspectives on Science

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This paper argues that research on normative issues in the life sciences will benefit from a tighter integration of philosophy of science. We examine research on ethical, legal and social issues in the life sciences (“ELSI”) and discuss three illustrative examples of normative issues that arise in different areas of the life sciences. These examples show that important normative questions are highly dependent on epistemic issues which so far have not been addressed sufficiently in ELSI, RRI and related areas of research. Accordingly, we argue for the integration of research on the epistemic aspects of the relevant areas of science into ELSI research to provide a better basis for addressing normative questions.

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Does science need bioethicists? Ethics and science collaboration in biomedical research

Cited by 10 publications

References 31 publications

Trust me, I’m a researcher!: The role of trust in biomedical research

Trust me, I’m a researcher!: The role of trust in biomedical research

Representaciones sociales de Bioética en epidemiólogos en formación

Integrating Philosophy of Science into Research on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Life Sciences

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