Us IRBS confronting research in the developing world

Developing World Bioethics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 63-73

  Klitzman, Robert L ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Developing world bioethics; Empirical ethics; Informed consent; Investigators; Research ethics; Research protocols

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECEPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; COERCION; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DECEPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864024281     PISSN: 14718731     EISSN: 14718847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2012.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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