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Moral Obligations

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Obligations In Offering To Disclose Genetic Research Results, Conrad Fernandez, Charles Weijer Nov 2006

Obligations In Offering To Disclose Genetic Research Results, Conrad Fernandez, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

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Trust-Based Obligations Of The State And Physician-Researchers To Patient-Subjects, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer Aug 2006

Trust-Based Obligations Of The State And Physician-Researchers To Patient-Subjects, Paul Miller, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

When may a physician enroll a patient in clinical research? An adequate answer to this question requires clarification of trust-based obligations of the state and the physician-researcher respectively to the patient-subject. The state relies on the voluntarism of patient-subjects to advance the public interest in science. Accordingly, it is obligated to protect the agent-neutral interests of patient-subjects through promulgating standards that secure these interests. Component analysis is the only comprehensive and systematic specification of regulatory standards for benefit-harm evaluation by research ethics committees (RECs). Clinical equipoise, a standard in component analysis, ensures the treatment arms of a randomised control trial …


The Balm Of Gilead: Is The Provision Of Treatment To Those Who Seroconvert In Hiv Prevention Trials A Matter Of Moral Obligation Or Moral Negotiation?, Charles Weijer, Guy Leblanc Dec 2005

The Balm Of Gilead: Is The Provision Of Treatment To Those Who Seroconvert In Hiv Prevention Trials A Matter Of Moral Obligation Or Moral Negotiation?, Charles Weijer, Guy Leblanc

Charles Weijer

Must treatment be provided to subjects who acquire HIV during the course of a prevention study? An analysis of ethical foundation, regulation, and recent argumentation provides no basis for the obligation. We outline an alternative approach to the problem based on moral negotiation.