Citation

Westrin CG, Nilstun T, Smedby B, Haglund B. J. Med. Ethics 1992; 18(4): 193-196.

Affiliation

Department of Social Medicine, Uppsala University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1460647

PMCID

PMC1376143

Abstract

To an increasing extent ethical controversies affect and sometimes obstruct public health work and epidemiological research. In order to improve communication between the concerned parties a model for identification and analysis of ethical conflicts in individual-based research has been worked out in co-operation between epidemiologists and moral philosophers. The model has two dimensions. One dimension specifies relevant ethical principles (as beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy and justice). The other dimension specifies the groups of persons involved in the conflict under consideration (for example: the study-population, individuals who may benefit from the results, the researchers and their personnel, the community at large). The model has been applied to the problem of legitimacy of case-register research and to problems in psychiatric health services research as well as epidemiological research.

Language: en