The consequences of knowing: Ethical and legal liabilities in illicit drug research

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1591-1600

  Fitzgerald, John ^a   Hamilton, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Ethics; Ethnography; Illicit drug use

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENTIALITY; DRUG ABUSE; ETHICS; HUMAN; LEGAL LIABILITY;

EID: 0030561247     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00055-X     Document Type: Article

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