Research Ethics Educational Resources
Research Ethics Core faculty are available to lecture or consult, as needed. Here we provide some educational materials and pdfs of powerpoint presentations on a range of research ethics topics, as well as links to other research ethics websites.
For those interested in a full course on these materials, various courses are available through the Masters of Bioethics program [Link]:
BIOE-580, Research Ethics
BIOE-585 Research Ethics in the Developing World
BIOE-570 Innovation in Medicine
Ethics of Science and Misconduct
- Merz JF. Ethics of Science »
NOTE: All these files cited here are too large to attach. i'll load them on a memorystick and bring them to you!
Authorship and Peer Review
Human Subjects Research issues
- Merz JF. History of Human Subjects Regulations and IRBs »
- Merz JF. Informed Consent »
- Karlawish JHT. Research in the Cognitively Impaired »
- Merz JF. Vulnerability in Human Subjects Research »
- Merz JF. What Makes Inducements Undue? »
Web Resources:
- DHHS Office of Research Integrity »
- NIH Office for Human Research Protection »
- NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare »
- CWRU Eng'g and Science Research Ethics page »
- IRB Forum » (free registration required)
- Guinea Pig Zero »
- Virginia Tech Ethics in Science page »
- U of Indiana's Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions »
- OHRP International Compilation of Human Subject Protections »