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Written by epidemiologists, ethicists, and legal scholars, this book provides an in-depth account of the moral problems that often confront epidemiologists, including both theoretical and practical issues. An introduction explores the theoretical and practical problems while leading issues are examined in later chapters. The topics covered include informed consent, privacy and confidentiality protection, the balancing of risks and benefits, ethical issues in the study of vulnerable populations, the institutional review board system, and professional education. All articles in the volume are original and include detailed references and bibliographic information. Epidemiologists, public health researchers, bioethicists, and health policy-makers will value the insight this book provides into the ethical dilemmas faced in epidemiologic research.

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• Contributors(p. ix)
• Part I Foundations
• 1 Historical Foundations(p. 3)
• 2 Moral Foundations(p. 22)
• 3 Toward a Philosophy of Epidemiology(p. 53)
• Part II Informed Consent, Privacy, And Confidentiality
• 4 Epidemiology and Informed Consent(p. 71)
• 5 Privacy and Confidentiality in Epidemiology: Special Challenges of Using Information Obtained without Informed Consent(p. 84)
• Part III Balancing Risks and Benefits
• 6 Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Community-Based Intervention Studies(p. 103)
• 7 Ethical Issues in the Interaction with Research Subjects and the Disclosure of Results(p. 128)
• 8 Ethics in Public Health Practice(p. 147)
• 9 Ethical Issues in Genetic Epidemiology(p. 182)
• 10 Ethics and Epidemiology in the Age of AIDS(p. 204)
• 11 Ethical Issues in International Health Research and Epidemiology(p. 227)
• Part IV The Regulatory Context And Professional Education
• 12 The Institutional Review Board(p. 245)
• 13 Good Conduct and Integrity in Epidemiologic Research(p. 264)
• 14 Ethics Curricula in Epidemiology(p. 283)
• Index(p. 305)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Stephen Coughlin is with the Epidemiology and Applied Research Branch of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thomas Beauchamp is a Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Douglas Weed is Chief in the Office of Preventive Oncology and Dean of Education and Training in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. Tom L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., received graduate degrees from Yale University and John Hopkins University. He is presently Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His main interests in philosophy are in ethical theory, professional ethics, and the history of modern philosophy.