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Ethics Without Borders
The image this month relates to the Editorial and a paper by Doris Schopper and colleagues. The Editorial discusses the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research are submitted for publication. The article by Schopper and colleagues describes the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review by this board, and discusses challenging ethical issues encountered by the board since its inception.
Image Credit: mknobil at flickr.com
Citation: (2009) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 6(7) July 2009. PLoS Med 6(7): ev06.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v06.i07
Published: July 28, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Mark Knobil. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The image this month relates to the Editorial and a paper by Doris Schopper and colleagues. The Editorial discusses the problems that can arise when research is done in the context of humanitarian relief work and notes that ethical oversight of such research needs to be rigorous, but also pragmatic. It discusses particularly the role of journals when papers arising from such research are submitted for publication. The article by Schopper and colleagues describes the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review by this board, and discusses challenging ethical issues encountered by the board since its inception.
Image Credit: mknobil at flickr.com