Environmental health research and the observer's dilemma

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1191-1194

  Resnik, David B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beneficence; Environmental health research; Ethics; Human subjects; Observation; Regulations; Risk; Risk communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JUSTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

DISCLOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 69249150080     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900861     Document Type: Article

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