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The Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Research, Charles Weijer Dec 1998

The Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Protecting Human Research Subjects: Case-Based Learning For Canadian Research Ethics Boards And Researchers, Françoise Baylis, A. Ireland, David Kaufman, Charles Weijer Dec 1998

Protecting Human Research Subjects: Case-Based Learning For Canadian Research Ethics Boards And Researchers, Françoise Baylis, A. Ireland, David Kaufman, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Integrating Bioethics And Health Law Into The Canadian Institutes Of Health Research, Susan Sherwin, FrançOise Baylis, Alan Bernstein, Timothy Caulfield, Bernard Dickens, Jocelyn Downie, Bartha Knoppers, ThéRèSe Leroux, Neil Macdonald, Michael Mcdonald, Janet Storch, Charles Weijer Dec 1998

Integrating Bioethics And Health Law Into The Canadian Institutes Of Health Research, Susan Sherwin, FrançOise Baylis, Alan Bernstein, Timothy Caulfield, Bernard Dickens, Jocelyn Downie, Bartha Knoppers, ThéRèSe Leroux, Neil Macdonald, Michael Mcdonald, Janet Storch, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Reb Review Of Research Proposals Involving Placebo Controls, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer Dec 1997

Society’S Choices: Social And Ethical Decision Making In Biomedicine, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Spilker's Guide To Clinical Trials On Cd-Rom, Charles Weijer May 1997

Spilker's Guide To Clinical Trials On Cd-Rom, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Selecting Subjects For Participation In Clinical Research: An Empirical Inquiry And Ethical Analysis, Charles Weijer Apr 1997

Selecting Subjects For Participation In Clinical Research: An Empirical Inquiry And Ethical Analysis, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

Procedures for the selection of subjects for participation in randomized clinical trials--usually formalized as eligibility criteria in the study protocol--have both scientific and ethical implications. In this thesis, I undertake an examination of eligibility criteria at three stages in the genesis and dissemination of medical knowledge: clinical trial protocol, interpretation by investigators, and reporting of study results.

In the first chapter, ethical issues in subject selection are reviewed and the main study questions are presented. In the second chapter, the results of an examination of eligibility criteria in two sets of clinical trials, one sponsored by the NSABP, the other …


The Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report Of The Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments, Charles Weijer Apr 1997

The Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report Of The Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Full House: The Spread Of Excellence From Plato To Darwin, Charles Weijer Mar 1997

Full House: The Spread Of Excellence From Plato To Darwin, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Film And Narrative In Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Charles Weijer Dec 1996

Film And Narrative In Bioethics: Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Queer Science: The Use And Abuse Of Research Into Homosexuality, Charles Weijer Oct 1996

Queer Science: The Use And Abuse Of Research Into Homosexuality, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Ethical Issues In Research, Charles Weijer Mar 1996

Ethical Issues In Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Do The Right Thing, Charles Weijer Dec 1995

Do The Right Thing, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

McGill ethicists help ensure that medical research conforms to the highest scientific and ethical standards.


Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, And Futile Treatment, Charles Weijer Dec 1995

Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, And Futile Treatment, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Cruel And Unusual Treatment, Carl Elliott, Charles Weijer Nov 1995

Cruel And Unusual Treatment, Carl Elliott, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Characterizing The Population In Clinical Trials: Barriers, Comparability, And Implications For Review, Charles Weijer Jun 1995

Characterizing The Population In Clinical Trials: Barriers, Comparability, And Implications For Review, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

The definition of the study population for a clinical trial via the criteria for trial eligibility has implications for the validity of the study and its applicability to clinical practice. Though issues of equity regarding the selection of subjects for research have long been a concern of ethicists, issues regarding the impact of subject selection on a trial's generalizability have only recently attracted ethical scrutiny. After a review of the history of the ethics of subject selection, I focus on three empirical questions regarding the generalizability of clinical trials. (1) What proportion of diseased populations are studied in clinical trials? …


The Ethics And Politics Of Human Experimentation, Charles Weijer Jun 1995

The Ethics And Politics Of Human Experimentation, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Our Bodies, Our Science, Charles Weijer Apr 1995

Our Bodies, Our Science, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Biomedical Research: Collaboration And Conflict Of Interest, Charles Weijer Dec 1994

Biomedical Research: Collaboration And Conflict Of Interest, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Biomedical Ethics In A Canadian Context, Charles Weijer Sep 1994

Biomedical Ethics In A Canadian Context, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Revolution In Clinical Trials: From Burden To Benefit And Back Again, Charles Weijer Dec 1993

The Revolution In Clinical Trials: From Burden To Benefit And Back Again, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.