Medical Research Ethics: Challenges in the 21st Century

Part 1: Philosophical Foundations.- Chapter 1. Embryo Research Ethics (Robert George).- Chapter 2. The Ethics of Medical Research (David Novak).- Chapter 3. Genopolitics (Jonathan Moreno).- Part 2: Vulnerability.- Chapter 4. Persons and Groups: Protection of research participants with vulnerabilities as a process (Pawel Lukow).- Chapter 5. Centring the Human Subject: Catalyzing Change in Ethics and Dementia Research (Susan Cox).- Part 3: Genetics.- Chapter 6. Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Addressing Patients' Unmet Needs or Causing Patient Harms (Kirstin Matthews).- Chapter 7. Genetic Privacy in the Age of Consumer & Forensic DNA Applications (Sheldon Krimsky).- Part 4: Neuroscience.- Chapter 8. Ethical Issues in Neuroscience Research (Walter Glannon).- Chapter 9. Should Prisoners' Participation in Neuroscientific Research Always be Disregarded When Making Decisions About Early Release? (Elizabeth Shaw).- Chapter 10. Applying Neuroscience Research: The bioethical problems ofpredicting and explaining behavior (David Freedman).- Chapter 11. Direct Benefit, Equipoise, And Research On The Non-Consenting (Stephen Napier).- Part 5. Surgery.- Chapter 12. The Ethics of Surgical Research and Innovation (Wendy A Rogers).- Part 6. Palliative Care.- Chapter 13. Opening Death's Door: Psilocybin and Therapeutic Meaning Response in Palliative Care (Duff Waring).- Part 7. Diagnostics, Risk, and Prediction.- Chapter 14. How Risky Can Biomedical Research Be? (Joanna Rozynska).- Chapter 15. Biomedical Ethics and Prediction of Terrorism (David Shapiro).- Chapter 16. PTSD and Biomedical Research: Ethical Conundrums (Lenore Walker).- Part 8. Security and Pandemic Threats.- Chapter 17. Human Rights and Priorities in Medical Research Ethics in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Jonathan Hafetz).- Chapter 18. An Aspirational Code of Conduct for Life Scientists (Malcolm Dando).- Chapter 19. Research Ethics in Exceptional Times: What lessons should we learn from Covid-19? (Søren

Professor Tomas Zima, Head of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine First Faculty of Medicine Charles University in Prague, served as Dean of the First Faculty of Medicine and Rector Magnificus of Charles University. Professor Zima is author of 470 articles which have been cited over 4500 times in the Science Citation Index. He has also written nine books and is Author of over 75 additional chapters. He has lectured globally at 160 universities and served in many leadership roles including as Member of the European Commission's Scientific Panel for Health (SPH). He is Chair of the Advisory Board for the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health. Professor Weisstub is Honorary Life President of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health and Co-President of the International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health. He is Founding Editor of the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (Springer). For over 40years, he was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Elsevier) and is Co-Editor of Éthique, Médecine et Politiques Publiques with Professor Christian Hervé. For over 20 years, he was Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Until 2017, Professor Weisstub has held the Philippe Pinel Professorship in Legal Psychiatry and Biomedical Ethics at the Université de Montréal. He is Recipient of honorary doctorates in the USA, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Italy and the Czech Republic. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour, he was appointed Grande Ufficiale in the Republic of Italy and knighted by the Queen of the Netherlands in the Order of the Dutch Lion.