Guidelines to prevent malevolent use of biomedical research

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 432-439

  Green, Shane K ^b,c   Taub, Sara ^b,c   Morin, Karine ^b,c   Higginson, Daniel ^c   Goldrich, Michael S ^a   Ray, Priscilla ^a   Benjamin, Regina M ^a   Levine, Mark A ^a   O'Bannon III, John M ^a   Sade, Robert M ^a   Spillman, Monique A ^a   Stewart Jr , Dudley M ^a   Kao, Audiey ^a  

^a Ethics Standards Group   (United States)

^b AMA's Institute for Ethics

^c AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFICENCE; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW;

BENEFICENCE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 33749365977     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180106210569     Document Type: Review

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