Ethical Intersections

Preface - ethics and health research, Jeanne Daly and Ian McDonald. Ethics, ethics committees and the researcher: what's the use of bioethics?, Max Charlesworth; is the tail wagging the dog on research ethics committees? Paul M. McNeil; problems for the researcher - ethics and epidemology, Judith Lumley; medicine and the ethical conditions of modernity, Paul Komesaroff. Basic research and experimental designs: basic research and experiment, I. MacDonald; the ethics of allocation of resources on basic research, Richard Larkins; traditional scientific designs and ethics, Terry Nolan; the false dichotomy between clinical care and clinical research. Social science disciplines - ethics and issues of method: social science health research - an introduction, J. Daly; unobtrusive methods in delicate situations, Allan Kellhear; my soul has gone - appropriate methods for a delicate situation, Pranee Liamputtong Rice; individual subject vs. person in context in behavioural research in health, William Noble; ethical dilemmas in the science of scarcity - health economics and policy, Terri Jackson. Representing community views: representing the community - issues from applied research experiences, Hal Kendig; ethics and health research in Aboriginal communities, Ian Anderson; women's health - methods and ethics across the life cycle, Johanna Wyn, J. Lumley and J. Daly; a consumer perspective on funding health-promoting research, Rhonda Galbally. The clinician's view of research - clinicians studying their own practice - an introduction, I. McDonald; mathematical models and clinical practice, Alvan Feinstein; studying narratives of aging and social problems in medican encounters, Howard Waitzin; primary care issues for general practice research, Peter Mudge.