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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org

Public Health Research Ethics: A Research Agenda

Marcel Verweij and Angus Dawson

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One plausible way to structure a narrative about the origin and development of medical ethics is to see much of it as a commentary on the ethical issues that have arisen in biomedical research with human subjects over the last 75 years. Whilst it is obvious that for medical progress to occur scientific studies involving human subjects are necessary, research ethics tends to focus on the examples in which vulnerable persons were harmed, or other moral problems arose. It is important to see that controversial studies are not limited to the work of malevolent ‘scientists’ like Josef Mengele, but are often carried out by researchers and groups that assumed at the time that they were contributing to improvements in the health and well-being of the public. Much discussed examples of controversial studies include Tuskegee (Jones, 1993), Willowbrook (Murphy, 2004), the Kennedy Krieger Institute Lead Paint Study (Mastroianni and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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