La realización de cualquier investigación con seres humanos o sus muestras biológicas
requiere una valoración ética previa con el fin de evitar riesgos y problemas a todos los …

Background Notwithstanding the need to produce evidence-based knowledge on
medications for pregnant women, they remain underrepresented in clinical research …

Background The concept of vulnerability has held a central place in research ethics
guidance since its introduction in the United States Belmont Report in 1979. It signals …

In the first section of this introduction, we identify four questions that an ethics of vulnerability
needs to address: What is vulnerability? Why does vulnerability give rise to moral …

Abstract “Vulnerability” is a key concept for research ethics and public health ethics. This
term can be discussed from either a conceptual or a practical perspective. I previously …

Recent theoretical work on vulnerability seeks to dissociate the concept from negative
connotations of victimhood, helplessness, neediness, and pathology, reconceptualizing …

Institutional review boards, tasked with facilitating ethical research, are often pulled in
competing directions. In what we call the protection-inclusion dilemma, we acknowledge the …

Ethical decision-making frameworks assist in identifying the issues at stake in a particular
setting and thinking through, in a methodical manner, the ethical issues that require …

Service robots with advanced intelligence capabilities can potentially transform
servicescapes. However, limited attention has been given to how consumers experiencing …

Racial Battle Fatigue is described as the physical and psychological toll taken due to
constant and unceasing discrimination, microagressions, and stereotype threat. The …