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Intro -- Not My Science -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Ethics in Critical Research: Stories from the Field -- Critical Approaches to Research -- Critical Approaches to Ethics -- Stories from the Field: Complicating Ethical Imperatives -- Going Forward -- References -- Section 1: Encounters with Systems -- 2: Introduction: Encounters with Systems Within Which Critical Research Is Conducted -- Critical Research on Health or Social Issues -- Research as Praxis but Distinct from Practice -- Reactive Bureaucracy Versus Proactive Ethics -- Recommendations for Ethical Critical Research as Distinct from Objectivist Research -- Conclusions to This Introduction -- References -- 3: Ethics in Theory and Pseudo-Ethics in Practice -- Dilemmas and Debates for Qualitative Health Researchers -- Case Study 1: Inappropriate Regulation and Training -- The Experience of Good Clinical Practice Training (in Liz's Voice) -- Case Study 2: Inappropriate Monitoring -- Reporting Harm (in Pam's Voice) -- Reflections on Our Experiences of Situated Ethics -- Embodied Ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Researching Sexual Healthcare for Women with Problematic Drug Use: Returning to Ethical Principles in Study Processes -- Researching the Sexual Healthcare Needs of Women with Problematic Drug Use -- Identifying Salient Ethical Issues for This Study -- Research Processes, Conventions, and Underlying Ethical Principles -- Patient and Public Involvement -- Working Within Systems that Govern Research -- Ethics Beyond Approval -- The Right to Speak -- Conclusions -- References -- 5: Contesting the Nature of Young Pregnant and Mothering Women: Critical Healthcare Nexus Research, Ethics Committees, and Healthcare Institutions -- Background to Reproductive Healthcare in South Africa -- Our Research.

Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Introduction -- The Growth of Research in the Arab Region -- Status of the Regulatory and Ethical Oversight Mechanisms for the Protection of Research Participants -- Summary of Chapters -- References -- Islam and Bioethics -- The Sources of Islamic Law -- The Holy Qur'an -- The Sunnah and Hadith -- Ijma' (Unanimous Consensus) -- Qiyas (Analogy) -- References -- Part I: Ethical Issues in Research -- What Kind of Research Ethics for the Arab Region? -- Universalism or Relativism?: The Inadequacy of the Principlism Approach -- A Research Ethics Informed by Post-colonial Theory -- References -- Exploitation and the Matter of History -- Introduction -- Defining the Concept -- The Colonialist Paradigm: The Importance of History -- Exploitation in Clinical Research -- Responding to Exploitation in Clinical Research -- Research Involving Persons Likely to be Vulnerable -- Introduction -- Definition of Vulnerability -- Categories of Vulnerable Participants -- Vulnerable Groups Relevant to the Arab Region -- Safeguards for Persons Prone to Being Vulnerable -- Conclusion -- References -- Ethical Issues Involving Informed Consent in the Arab Region -- Introduction -- Issues Regarding Informed Consent in the Arab Region -- Social Structure and the Principal of Autonomy -- Literacy and Language Whilst Assuring Comprehension -- When the Culture of Signing Is Problematic -- The Clinical Investigator/Physician and the Therapeutic Misconception -- Ethical Issues Involving Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons -- Investigators' Awareness and Knowledge in Research Ethics and Its Influence on the Consent Process -- Methods to Improve Informed Consent -- Waivers Involving Informed Consent -- Waiver of the Requirement to Obtain a Signed Informed Consent Document

Cover -- Introduction -- I Sustainable Development -- The Quality of Sustainability Science: A Philosophical Perspective -- Concepts and Conceptions of Sustainable Development: A Comparative Perspective -- The Foundations of Capability Theory: Comparing Nussbaum and Gewirth -- II Ethics & Theory of Science -- Post-Normal Science -- From Democratisation of Knowledge to Democratisation of Ignorance - and the Importance of Hermeneutics -- Ethics in the Sciences beyond Hume, Moore and Weber: Taking Epistemic-Moral Hybrids Seriously -- Ethics of Science and a New Social Contract for Knowledge -- III Politics & Governance of Transformation -- Security and the Absurd Event: What the Zombie Apocalypse Teaches us about Resilience -- Shaping Science Policy - More Democracy and Sustainability -- IV Environmental Humanities -- Don't be such a meat-breath! Food and Sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy -- "As if that God made Creatures for Mans meat": Margaret Cavendish's The Hunting of the Hare and Animal Ethics -- Climate Change in Early Modern Literature Which Place for Humanities in the Sustainability Sciences? -- V Fields of Application -- Parameters of the Anthropocene -- Sustainable Development and Nonhuman Animals: Why Anthropocentric Concepts of Sustainability Are Outdated and Need to Be Extended -- Water Ethics - Reflections on a Liquifying Topic -- List of Contributors -- Index.

This book represents the first comprehensive anthology of papers designed to explore both the state of scientific progress and the ethics, law and history of scientific research. It will appeal to a very wide international audience, offering a truly multidisciplinary analysis of many facets of scientific research.

Human subjects in medical research have yielded benefits to our core knowledge as well as to healthcare practice. Yet globalization has thrown up urgent ethical, legal and social questions over their use, addressed by experts in this multidisciplinary volume.

Using a philosophical framework that is informed by neuroscience as well as contemporary legal cases such as Terri Schiavo, this text offers readers an introduction to this topic. It looks at the ethical implications of our knowledge of the brain and medical treatments for neurological diseases

Intro -- Issues in Medical Research Ethics -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. On the nature of research -- Chapter 2. Regulation of research -- Chapter 3. Research versus consent -- Chapter 4. Vulnerable groups -- Chapter 5. The extent of the researcher's duties -- Glossary -- References -- Appendices -- List of participants -- List of critical readers -- Index.

Based on personal accounts of their experiences conducting qualitative and quantitative research in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the contributors to this volume share the real-life obstacles they have encountered in applying research methods in practice and the possible solutions to overcome them

This paper is a review of the 18th National Ethics Conference that took place in November 2022 and was organized by the Department of Ethical Studies of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The aim of this review is to give publicity to the event by informing of the thematic panels, the titles of the reports and the names of the researchers who participated.