Ethical Intersections

Introduction -- Ethics, Ethics Committees and the Researcher -- What's the Use of Bioethics? -- Research Ethics Committees: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? -- Ethics and Epidemiology: Problems for the Researcher -- Medicine and the Ethical Conditions of Modernity -- Basic Research and Experimental Designs -- Basic Research and the Ethics of Resource Allocation -- Traditional Scientific Designs and Ethics -- Clinical Care and Clinical Research: A False Dichotomy -- Basic Research and Experiment: A Summing up -- Social Science Disciplines -- Social Science Health Research -- Unobtrusive Methods in Delicate Situations -- My Soul Has Gone: Appropriate Methods for a Delicate Situation -- Behavioural Research in Health: Individual Subject vs Person in Context -- Health Economics and Policy: Ethical Dilemmas in the Science of Scarcity -- Representing Community Views -- Representing the Community: Issues from Applied Research Experiences -- Ethics and Health Research in Aboriginal Communities -- Women's Health: Methods and Ethics -- Funding Health-Promoting Research: A Consumer Perspective -- The Clinicians' View of Research -- Clinicians Studying Their Own Practice: An Introduction -- Mathematical Models and Clinical Practice -- Studying Narratives of Ageing and Social Problems in Medical Encounters -- Primary Care: Issues for General Practice Research -- Conclusion