Māori Theorists Working in Bioethics and Justice Spotlighted at Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference
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Ongoing 21-23 November of 2019, the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law / New Zealand Bioethics Conference is spotlighting work by Māori thinkers. IJFAB Blog readers might want to look more closely at their work, which makes important contributions … Continue reading

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Should Institutional Review Boards charge a fee to review research proposals? WUSTL gives us a test case
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In the US, researchers at academic institutions who do work with human research participants must obtain the approval of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that looks to assure that research protocols do not violate ethical requirements for such research. Washington … Continue reading

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International Research on Herpes vaccines under fire for ethical lapses by government of St. Kitts
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At the end of August, news broke about an effort to develop a herpes vaccine. On the face of it a good use of human subject research, in fact the research conducted on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts was … Continue reading

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