Etyka Lekarska [Medical ethics]

Author(s): Brzezinski, Tadeusz
Document type: Book
Year: 2002
Pages: 414
Source: Publishing house: Wydawnictwo Lekarskie PZWL
Language(s): Polish

Classification

National background: European Union
Category: EU Training Material for Research Ethics
Subject areas: Animal experimentation; Biotechnology; Ethical research (fraud and misconduct); Human experimentation
Focus: Sub-focus: medical ethics; Indicate area of research dealt with: human and animal biomedical experimentation
Content: Case studies; Cultural specifics; Ethical theories; Important codes; Legal background; Normative reflections
Issues touched: Autonomy, respect, informed consent, subjects unable to consent, role of representatives Beneficence, non-maleficence, risk for the subject Justice, benefits/burdens, research without benefit for the subject, placebos/standard therapy; Vulnerable groups, soldiers, prisoners, pregnant women, elderly people; Social background of research, conflicts of interest, researcher vs. doctor, commercialisation Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism; Ethics committees, research protocols Publication of unethical trials Research on animals
Audience: Physicians and students of medicine

Estimation

Didactical quality: Didactically prepared material
Overall estimation: recommendable
Estimation remarks: Comprehensive and recommendable study book for medical ethics in general with a welldone chapter concerning medical ethics, includes ethics of human and animal experimentation.