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12Uses of equipoise in discussions of the ethics of randomized controlled trials of COVID-19 therapiesBMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-8. 2021.BackgroundEarly in the COVID-19 pandemic, the urgent need to discover effective therapies for COVID-19 prompted questions about the ethical problem of randomization along with its widely accepted solution: equipoise. In this scoping review, uses of equipoise in discussions of randomized controlled trials of COVID-19 therapies are evaluated to answer three questions. First, how has equipoise been applied to COVID-19 research? Second, has equipoise been employed accurately? And third, do concerns …Read more
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11The Quest for Legitimacy: Comment on Cox Macpherson's ‘to Strengthen Consensus, Consult the Stakeholders’Bioethics 18 (3): 293-300. 2004.
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10The IRB's Role in Assessing the Generalizability of Non-NIH-Funded Clinical TrialsIRB: Ethics & Human Research 20 (2/3): 1. 1998.
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9The Balm of Gilead: Is the Provision of Treatment to Those Who Seroconvert in HIV Prevention Trials a Matter of Moral Obligation or Moral Negotiation?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 34 (4): 793-808. 2006.Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?In July of 2004, Cambodian sex workers staged a protest of an HIV prevention trial set to enroll 900 sex workers in Phnom Penh, charging the study planners with exploitation. The Cambodian study was one of a series of international clinical trials sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Bill and Melinda Ga…Read more
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University of Western OntarioDepartment of Philosophy
Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsProfessor -
London, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Biomedical Ethics |
Medical Research Ethics |