Health Law Review articles

Recent articles from Health Law Review

From code to policy statement: creating Canadian policy for ethical research involving humans.
March 22, 2009... Introduction While the history of U.S. and international research ethics is well documented, little has been written on the formation of Canadian policy and practice. (2) Most commentary on Canadian policy has centred on content, particularly on gaps and shortcomings. (3) This is an...

Research governance lessons from the National Placebo Initiative.
March 22, 2009... 1. Introduction For at least the last two decades, Canada has been an international leader in research ethics. Canadian scholars have written seminal articles that now fill standard texts in the field. For example, in the authoritative collection Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical...

Ethical challenges and evolving practices in research on ethics in health research.
March 22, 2009... Introduction 'Research ethics' are "the moral principles guiding research, from its inception through to completion and publication of results and beyond." (1) Ethical review offers guidelines concerning the rights, dignity and safety of human subjects, and plays a critical role in...

Informing governance through evidence-based research on REBs: challenges and opportunities. (Research Ethics Boards)
March 22, 2009... In 2004, Joan Sieber made a passionate call for research that would inform our understanding of the workings of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or Research Ethics Boards (REBs). Although there is a rich scholarship on the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects, she argued,...

Challenges to ethics review in health research.(Canada)
March 22, 2009... "Whereas Parliament believes that health research should... take into consideration ethical issues...." (1) The legislation creating the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in 2000 specifically mentioned ethics in the preamble (as noted above). This historic legislation...