Readings

Readings

Contraceptive practice in developing countries: a medical ethical evaluation
Biomedical Ethics - Vol. 1, No. 2, 1996: "Based on an empirical survey carried out in the Brazilian State Rio Grande do Norte in 1991 it can be demonstrated that ethically relevant problems in the field of contraceptive behaviour are particularly prominent with regard to principles of justice. autonomy, informed consent, responsibility to community..."
Cross-cultural medical ethics
presented at the Bioethics "Mega-meeting" in Pittsburgh, Spring, 1995
Informed Consent and Medical Research
presentation for class in Health Care Ethics at the U. of Kentucky taught by Christian Perring, PhD

British Medical Journal:

Patients do not read consent forms
"Patients tend to assume that any research that they enter into is safe. They often do not read consent forms carefully because they assume that someone else has scrutinised the risks and benefits on their behalf."
Lessons still need to be learned from Nuremberg
"Dr Michael Grodin, Professor of Medical Ethics at Boston University, said that he regrets that human experimentation issues, although central to the Nuremberg trials, tended to overshadow the broader issues of sterilisation, euthanasia, and eugenics that played a major part in German doctors' complicity in state ideology."

Harvard School of Public Health