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42What Do Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiology Say About an Ethics Review? A Qualitative Systematic ReviewScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (3): 743-768. 2017.Epidemiological research is subject to an ethics review. The aim of this qualitative review is to compare existing ethical guidelines in English for epidemiological research and public health practice in regard to the scope and matter of an ethics review. Authors systematically searched PubMed, Google Scholar and Google Search for ethical guidelines. Qualitative analysis was applied to categorize important aspects of the an ethics review process. Eight ethical guidelines in English for epidemiol…Read more
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26Should Epidemiological Studies Be Subject to Ethics Review?Public Health Ethics 11 (2): 213-220. 2018.Epidemiological studies usually do not pose high risk to participants. At the same time they provide valuable knowledge and improve public and individual health. In many countries, studies involving human subjects are subject to ethics review. Research shows that the process of obtaining ethical approval from institutional research boards or research ethics committees is sometimes costly, time-consuming and seriously delays important research projects. In this article we consider arguments again…Read more
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35Non-beneficial pediatric research: individual and social interestsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18 (1): 103-112. 2015.Biomedical research involving human subjects is an arena of conflicts of interests. One of the most important conflicts is between interests of participants and interests of future patients. Legal regulations and ethical guidelines are instruments designed to help find a fair balance between risks and burdens taken by research subjects and development of knowledge and new treatment. There is an universally accepted ethical principle, which states that it is not ethically allowed to sacrifice ind…Read more
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51Relevant Information and Informed Consent in Research: In Defense of the Subjective Standard of DisclosureScience and Engineering Ethics 23 (1): 215-225. 2017.In this article, we seek to contribute to the debate on the requirement of disclosure in the context of informed consent for research. We defend the subjective standard of disclosure and describe ways to implement this standard in research practice. We claim that the researcher should make an effort to find out what kinds of information are likely to be relevant for those consenting to research. This invites researchers to take empirical survey information seriously, attempt to understand the cu…Read more
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25Forensic uses of research biobanks: should donors be informed?Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19 (1): 141-146. 2016.Occasional reports in the literature suggest that biological samples collected and stored for scientific research are sometimes accessed and used for a variety of forensic purposes. However, donors are almost never informed about this possibility. In this paper we argue that the possibility of forensic access may constitute a relevant consideration at least to some potential research subjects in deciding whether to participate in research. We make the suggestion that if some type of forensic acc…Read more
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56Broadening 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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31Child’s objection to non-beneficial research: capacity and distress based modelsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19 (1): 65-70. 2016.A child’s objection, refusal and dissent regarding participation in non-beneficial biomedical research must be respected, even when the parents or legal representatives have given their permission. There is, however, no consensus on the definition and criteria of a meaningful and valid child’s objection. The aim of this article is to clarify this issue. In the first part we describe the problems of a child’s assent in research. In the second part we distinguish and analyze two models of a child’…Read more
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143Child’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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6Ethical challenges of clinical trials with a repurposed drug in outbreaksMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 26 (2): 233-241. 2023.Drug repurposing is a strategy of identifying new potential uses for already existing drugs. Many researchers adopted this method to identify treatment or prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite the considerable number of repurposed drugs that were evaluated, only some of them were labeled for new indications. In this article, we present the case of amantadine, a drug commonly used in neurology that attracted new attention during the COVID-19 outbreak. This example illustrates …Read more
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24Google Search as an Additional Source in Systematic ReviewsScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (2): 809-810. 2018.
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39Umbrella and basket trials in oncology: ethical challengesBMC Medical Ethics 20 (1): 1-10. 2019.Novel precision oncology trial designs, such as basket and umbrella trials, are designed to test new anticancer agents in more effective and affordable ways. However, they present some ethical concerns referred to scientific validity, risk-benefit balance and informed consent. Our aim is to discuss these issues in basket and umbrella trials, giving examples of two ongoing cancer trials: NCI-MATCH (National Cancer Institute – Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) and Lung-MAP (Lung Cancer Master…Read more
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22Underestimation of Harms in Phase I TrialsJournal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 47 (2): 334-335. 2019.
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28Neither the Harm Principle nor the Best Interest Standard Should Be Applied to Pediatric ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 18 (8): 72-74. 2018.Application of either the harm principle or the best interest standard to medical decision making conflicts with some types of pediatric research that pose elevated risk without the reasonable prob...
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10Publication Ethics in Biomedical Journals from Countries in Central and Eastern EuropeScience and Engineering Ethics 20 (1): 99-109. 2014.Publication ethics is an important aspect of both the research and publication enterprises. It is particularly important in the field of biomedical science because published data may directly affect human health. In this article, we examine publication ethics policies in biomedical journals published in Central and Eastern Europe. We were interested in possible differences between East European countries that are members of the European Union and South-East European countries that are not member…Read more
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Isaiah Berlin i Emmanuel Lévinas. Wolność negatywna i pojęcie „innego”Colloquia Communia 73 (2): 428-435. 2002.
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The aim of this article is to present a critical overview of Jacques Derrida’s objections to the theories of phenomenological experience. I present and analyze Derrida’s principal arguments which show that the primordial character of such experiences is only apparent. I also try to sketch a possible line of defense and to undermine some of the interpretational presuppositions introduced by the author of La voix et le phénomène.
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Etyczny projekt Emmanuela Levinasa - fenomenologia czy antyfenomenologia?Fenomenologia 6 43-66. 2008.
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15Iluzja źródłowości. Derridiańska krytyka teorii doświadczenia fenomenologicznegoDiametros 18 68-87. 2008.
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718Publication Ethics in Biomedical Journals from Countries in Central and Eastern EuropeScience and Engineering Ethics (1): 1-11. 2013.Publication ethics is an important aspect of both the research and publication enterprises. It is particularly important in the field of biomedical science because published data may directly affect human health. In this article, we examine publication ethics policies in biomedical journals published in Central and Eastern Europe. We were interested in possible differences between East European countries that are members of the European Union (Eastern EU) and South-East European countries (South…Read more
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456Failures in Clinical Trials in the European Union: Lessons from the Polish ExperienceScience and Engineering Ethics 19 (3): 1087-1098. 2013.When discussing the safety of research subjects, including their exploitation and vulnerability as well as failures in clinical research, recent commentators have focused mostly on countries with low or middle-income economies. High-income countries are seen as relatively safe and well-regulated. This article presents irregularities in clinical trials in an EU member state, Poland, which were revealed by the Supreme Audit Office of Poland (the NIK). Despite adopting many European Union regulatio…Read more
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49Research in disaster settings: a systematic qualitative review of ethical guidelinesBMC Medical Ethics 17 (1): 62. 2016.Conducting research during or in the aftermath of disasters poses many specific practical and ethical challenges. This is particularly the case with research involving human subjects. The extraordinary circumstances of research conducted in disaster settings require appropriate regulations to ensure the protection of human participants. The goal of this study is to systematically and qualitatively review the existing ethical guidelines for disaster research by using the constant comparative meth…Read more
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40A European consistency for functioning of RECs? We just lost our chanceJournal of Medical Ethics 39 (6): 408-409. 2013.On 17 July 2012, the European Commission formally adopted a proposal for a new European Union (EU) Directive regarding clinical trials, which will repeal and replace the existing Directive 2001/20/EC. The main reasons for the revision were: (1) the decreasing number of clinical trials in the region and (2) harsh criticism of the present version of the Directive. The proposed regulation could simplify the rules for conducting clinical trials and also rebuild the entire system of clinical trial as…Read more
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |