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Family Duty Is More Important Than Rights, Charles Weijer Dec 2000

Family Duty Is More Important Than Rights, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Ethical Analysis Of Risk, Charles Weijer Nov 2000

The Ethical Analysis Of Risk, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Benefit-Sharing And Other Protections For Communities In Genetic Research, Charles Weijer Oct 2000

Benefit-Sharing And Other Protections For Communities In Genetic Research, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Clinical Equipoise And Not The Uncertainty Principle Is The Moral Underpinning Of The Randomised Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer, Stanley Shapiro, Kathleen Glass Sep 2000

Clinical Equipoise And Not The Uncertainty Principle Is The Moral Underpinning Of The Randomised Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer, Stanley Shapiro, Kathleen Glass

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Research Into Rotavirus Vaccine, Charles Weijer Sep 2000

The Future Of Research Into Rotavirus Vaccine, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Reporting The Study Populations Of Clinical Trials. Clear Transmission Or Static On The Line?, Stanley Shapiro, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman Aug 2000

Reporting The Study Populations Of Clinical Trials. Clear Transmission Or Static On The Line?, Stanley Shapiro, Charles Weijer, Benjamin Freedman

Charles Weijer

In contrast to attempts that have been made to measure the clarity of reporting of the methods of clinical trials in journal articles, we report here an attempt to measure the accuracy of methods reporting. We focus in this article on eligibility criteria as a test case for the reporting of clinical trial methods. We examined the reporting of eligibility criteria in the protocol, methods paper (if applicable), journal article, and Clinical Alert for articles appearing in print between January 1988 and September 1994 for which a Clinical Alert had been issued. Eligibility criteria were further classified into five categories …


Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Aug 2000

Moral Solutions In Assessing Research Risk, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Protecting Communities In Biomedical Research, Charles Weijer, E. Emanuel Aug 2000

Protecting Communities In Biomedical Research, Charles Weijer, E. Emanuel

Charles Weijer

Although for the last 50 years, ethicists dealing with human experimentation have focused primarily on the need to protect individual research subjects and vulnerable groups, biomedical research, especially in genetics, now requires the establishment of standards for the protection of communities. We have developed such a strategy, based on five steps. (i) Identification of community characteristics relevant to the biomedical research setting, (ii) delineation of a typology of different types of communities using these characteristics, (iii) determination of the range of possible community protections, (iv) creation of connections between particular protections and one or more community characteristics necessary for its …


The Sum Of My Parts, Charles Weijer Jun 2000

The Sum Of My Parts, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, And Identity, Charles Weijer May 2000

A Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture, And Identity, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Bioethics: An Anthology, Charles Weijer Apr 2000

Bioethics: An Anthology, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


An Historical Take On The Physician's Charter, Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer Apr 2000

An Historical Take On The Physician's Charter, Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.


Die Fülle Oder Das Nichts?: Martin Heidegger And Edith Stein On The Question Of Being, Antonio Calcagno Mar 2000

Die Fülle Oder Das Nichts?: Martin Heidegger And Edith Stein On The Question Of Being, Antonio Calcagno

Antonio Calcagno

No abstract provided.


Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer Jan 2000

Clinical Equipoise And Rct Design, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

This presentation addresses these questions:
• “Upon what ethical grounds may the physician offer RCT enrollment to a patient?”
• Which is the preferred moral basis of the RCT?


The Numinous And Modernity: An Interpretation Of Rudolf Otto's Philosophy Of Religion, Todd Gooch Dec 1999

The Numinous And Modernity: An Interpretation Of Rudolf Otto's Philosophy Of Religion, Todd Gooch

Todd Gooch

The author traces the development of Rudolf Otto’s attempt to construct a normative science of religion. This should respond to concerns facing Protestant theologians in Germany at the turn of the century. Moreover, he examines the reception of Otto’s ideas after World War One. The volume contains name and subject indexes.

Reviewed by:

Gregory D. Alles, The Journal of Religion 83:4 (Oct. 2003), 654-656.

Hans Waldenfels, S.J., Theologische Literaturzeitung 127:6 (Oct. 2002), 673-674.


The Baldwin Effect: An Archeology, David Depew Dec 1999

The Baldwin Effect: An Archeology, David Depew

David J Depew

Abstract: “The Baldwin effect” stands for a wide variety of ways in which learn ing can be conceived as guiding adap tive evolution ary change. An analysis of the history of this notion reveals that it does not reliably refer either to a theory-neutral empirical phenomenon or to a single theoretical hypothesis. On the contrary, articulations of the general idea depend on distinctive, but in commensurable, theoretical backgrounds. In reconstructing the conceptual history of the Baldwin effect I hope to support contemporary explorations of idea by encouraging the articulation of new theoretical frameworks in which it might make sense. I …


The Ethical Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Human Subjects Research: History, Theory, And Implications For U.S. Regulation, Charles Weijer Dec 1999

The Ethical Analysis Of Risks And Potential Benefits In Human Subjects Research: History, Theory, And Implications For U.S. Regulation, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

This paper addresses three questions central to the ethical analysis of risks and potential benefits in human subjects research:

1. How was the ethical analysis of risk understood by the members of the U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (National Commission)?
2. What conceptual framework should guide the ethical analysis of risk?
3. What changes to U.S. regulations would the implementation of such a framework require?


Service-Learning And Engineering Ethics, Michael Pritchard Dec 1999

Service-Learning And Engineering Ethics, Michael Pritchard

Michael Pritchard

This paper explores ways in which service-learning programs can enhance ethics education in engineering. Service-learning programs combine volunteer work and academic study. The National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE) and American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) codes of ethics explicitly encourage engineers to seek opportunities, beyond their work-related responsibilities, to serve their communities. Examples of how this can be encouraged as a part of the educational experiences of engineering students are explored.
Calvin: How good do you have to be to qualify as good? I haven’t killed anybody. See, that’s good, right? I haven’t committed any felonics. I didn’t start …


A Feminist I: Reflections From Academia, Christine Overall, Samantha Brennan Dec 1999

A Feminist I: Reflections From Academia, Christine Overall, Samantha Brennan

Samantha Brennan

No abstract provided.