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40Twenty Years of Human Research Ethics Committees in the Baltic StatesDeveloping World Bioethics 11 (1): 48-54. 2011.Two decades have passed since the first attempts were made to establish systematic ethical review of human research in the Baltic States. Legally and institutionally much has changed. In this paper we provide an historical and structural overview of ethical review of human research and identify some problems related to the role of ethical review in establishing quality research environment in these countries. Problems connected to (a) public availability of information, (b) management of conflic…Read more
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Action Recognition as Virtus DormitivaProblemos 77 122-128. 2010.Straipsnyje siūlomos konceptualios priemonės, leidžiančios formuluoti tvirtinimą, kad tose socialinių mokslų filosofijos teorijose, kuriose veiksmų atpažinimas yra laikomas metodologiniu socialinio aiškinimo pagrindu, jis yra traktuojamas kaip „virtus dormitiva“. Tuomet veiksmų atpažinimas gali būti suprantamas kaip tiesioginė veiksmų tipų įžvalga elgsenoje arba neapibrėžta, holistinė veiksmų interpretavimo procedūra. Abiem atvejais susiduriama su neskaidrios ir toliau neaiškinamos pažįstančiojo…Read more
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38Non-equivalent stringency of ethical review in the Baltic States: a sign of a systematic problem in Europe?Journal of Medical Ethics 36 (7): 435-439. 2010.We analyse the system of ethical review of human research in the Baltic States by introducing the principle of equivalent stringency of ethical review, that is, research projects imposing equal risks and inconveniences on research participants should be subjected to equally stringent review procedures. We examine several examples of non-equivalence or asymmetry in the system of ethical review of human research: (1) the asymmetry between rather strict regulations of clinical drug trials and relat…Read more
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55Broadening the “Infrastructure Effect”: Lessons from the Early Development of Research Ethics in Eastern EuropeAmerican Journal of Bioethics 16 (6): 26-28. 2016.
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142Child’s assent in research: Age threshold or personalisation?BMC Medical Ethics 15 (1): 44. 2014.Assent is an important ethical and legal requirement of paediatric research. Unfortunately, there are significant differences between the guidelines on the details of assent
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4Map of NeuroethicsProblemos 76 66-73. 2009.The article deals with the problems discussed in neuroethics a rapidly developing field of applied ethics. The term “neuroethics” is discussed in the article and is suggested to group neuroethical problems into four groups: (1) ethical problems connected with brain imaging technologies, (2) ethical problems connected with the technologies that allow to manipulate the activity and properties of the brain, (3) the influence of the neuroscientific worldview on our considerations on morality, and (4…Read more