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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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8Thinking Clearly about Research Risk: Implications of the Work of Benjamin FreedmanIRB: Ethics & Human Research 21 (6): 1. 1999.
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8McGill ethicists help ensure that medical research conforms to the highest scientific and ethical standards.
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8Ethics of non-therapeutic research on imminently dying patients in the intensive care unitJournal of Medical Ethics 49 (5): 311-318. 2023.Non-therapeutic research with imminently dying patients in intensive care presents complex ethical issues. The vulnerabilities of the imminently dying, together with societal disquiet around death and dying, contribute to an intuition that such research is beyond the legitimate scope of scientific inquiry. Yet excluding imminently dying patients from research hinders the advancement of medical science to the detriment of future patients. Building on existing ethical guidelines for research, we p…Read more
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7Grey Matter – The Problems of Incidental Findings in Neuroimaging ResearchJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 49 (2): 282-284. 2021.
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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 |