We're only a week away from the 2015 Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference and the 2015 Advancing Ethical Research Conference, so here's a look back at a compelling moment from a previous conference. Read on for this week's Time Capsule Tuesday.
Conference: Changes and Choices for IRBs: The Inclusion of Women and Minorities, and Other Emerging Issues in Research, October 1994
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We're two weeks away from the 2015 Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference (SBER15) and the 2015 Advancing Ethical Research Conference (AER15), so we thought we'd take a look back at a compelling moment from a previous conference. Read on for this week's Time Capsule Tuesday.
Conference: The Evolution of Protecting Human Subjects: From Nuremburg to the Nineties, November 1991
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We're three weeks away from the 2015 Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference (SBER15) and the 2015 Advancing Ethical Research Conference (AER15), so we thought we'd take a look back at a compelling moment from a previous conference. Read on for this week's Time Capsule Tuesday.
Conference: Federal Regulations: Bane or Boon to IRBs? March 1980
Session: How Can Research Involving Human Subjects Function Optimally Und
er Federal Regulations?
Panelists: Edward L. Pattullo, Charles R. McCarthy, John Petricianni, Stanford Chodosh
“I believe that persons in the research [...] Read more
Since we're five weeks away from the 2015 Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference (SBER15) and the 2015 Advancing Ethical Research Conference (AER15), PRIM&R is taking a brief look back at some compelling moments from previous conferences. Read on to explore this week's Time Capsule Tuesday.
Conference: Behavioral and Social Science Research and the Protection of Human Subjects, October 1979
Session: When is Research Research?
Workshop Facilitator: Kenneth J. Gergen
At a 1985 PRIM&R meeting titled IACUCs & the Ethics of Animal Research: A Conference on Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees, David Britt, PhD, addressed the question of whether animal care and use committees can evaluate animal use proposals without considering scientific merit. Britt, then a research associate in the department of veterinary parasitology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, argued they cannot. He reasoned:
“Unsound science is unethical. If the research does not engender suffering or squander precious resources, this may be unimportant, but very little biomedical research avoids both of these. If all research projects to be reviewed ethically are evaluated elsewhere for their scientific merit, [...] Read more
