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Standing on principles : collected essays
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ISBN: 1282613529 9786612613524 0199774366 9780199774364 9780199737185 0199737185 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Tom L. Beauchamp of Georgetown is one of the founding fathers of contemporary bioethics, and is particularly influential as one of the co-authors (with James Childress) of PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS, first published by OUP over 25 years ago and a true cornerstone of contemporary bioethics. This volume is both an introductory textbook as well as a definitive expression of what is known as the dominant ""principlist"" approach which views bioethical reasoning developing out of four key principles: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice. This view has been highly infl


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Reduccion de la Pobreza : Aprendizaje e innovacion al servicio del desarrollo
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Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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A partir de los resultados de la Iniciativa de Aprendizaje Mundial de Shanghai, la obra Reduccion de la pobreza a escala mundial intenta contribuir al extenso conocimiento actual sobre reduccion de la pobreza y la eficacia de la ayuda. El objetivo es instruir a los profesionales del desarrollo acerca de los logros conseguidos en el intento de reducir la pobreza y sus factores determinantes. En cada uno de los capitulos se extraen lecciones de implementacion a partir de un subconjunto de estudios de casos preparados de acuerdo con diferentes dimensiones de la pobreza, con especial atencion a factores como funcion del compromiso y liderazgo, innovacion institucional, aprendizaje y experimentacion y catalizadores externos. En vez de recomendar soluciones concretas o practicas optimas, se presentan algunas conclusiones clave derivadas de ejemplos estrategicamente seleccionados, que se integran en una exposicion tematica.


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The uses of humans in experiment : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century
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ISBN: 9004286713 9789004286719 9789004286702 9004286705 Year: 2016 Publisher: Brill | Rodopi

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Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern incarnation of ethics has often been considered a product of the second half of the twentieth century, as enshrined in international laws and codes, but these authors remind us that this territory has long been debated, considered, and revisited as a fundamental part of the scientific enterprise that privileges humans as ideal subjects for advancing research.


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Learning to Learn : Experimentation, Entrepreneurial Capital, and Development
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This paper models an entrepreneur's choice between investing in a safe activity or experimenting with a new risky one, and how much to invest in the "entrepreneurial capital" that would permit more effective use of the arriving information on the latter- how much to learn how to learn. Optimal investment in entrepreneurial capital depends the expected return on the risky activity. It can lead to three learning regimes, two of which can generate a development trap where firms and countries are unable to assess the potential of newly arriving technologies and hence grow more slowly. The first arises purely because it is too expensive to learn to learn, the second because the returns to the new activity are so high that they obviate the need to distinguish between activities and hence invest in entrepreneurial capital. The paper draws on historical evidence to show how the model offers insights into three understudied features of the industrialization process in the Western Hemisphere at the beginning of the 20th century: the disproportionate influence of immigrant/foreign entrepreneurs in driving industrialization in Latin America; the emergence of selective exceptions to this pattern, as well as episodes of entrepreneurial retrogression; and the differing effects of similar economic structures across countries that suggest the possibility of a learning-displacing resource curse. The model can simulate the respective decline and boom in the Chilean and US copper industries at the turn of the century, arising either from initially high relative returns or low initial endowments of entrepreneurial capital in the latter.


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Regulating human research : IRBs from peer review to compliance bureaucracy
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ISBN: 150361123X 9781503611238 9781503610149 1503611221 9781503611221 Year: 2020 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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Institutional review boards (IRBs) are panels charged with protecting the rights of humans who participate in research studies ranging from biomedicine to social science. Regulating Human Research provides a fresh look at these influential and sometimes controversial boards, tracing their historic transformation from academic committees to compliance bureaucracies: non-governmental offices where specialized staff define and apply federal regulations. In opening the black box of contemporary IRB decision-making, author Sarah Babb argues that compliance bureaucracy is an adaptive response to the dynamics and dysfunctions of American governance. Yet this solution has had unforeseen consequences, including the rise of a profitable ethics review industry.


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Scientific and ethical approaches for observational exposure studies
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ISBN: 9781536114201 1536114200 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishing, Incorporated,

Walking the tightrope : ethical issues for qualitative researchers
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ISBN: 080203683X 0802085237 9786612022951 1282022954 1442683201 9781442683204 9781282022959 9780802036834 9780802085238 Year: 2002 Publisher: Toronto, [Canada] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,


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Embryo politics
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ISBN: 0801461073 080146059X 9780801460593 9780801449574 080144957X Year: 2011 Publisher: Ithaca [N.Y.] Cornell University Press

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Since the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs have raised ethical dilemmas and generated policy controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Embryo, stem cell, and cloning research have provoked impassioned political debate about their religious, moral, legal, and practical implications. National governments make rules that govern the creation, destruction, and use of embryos in the laboratory-but they do so in profoundly different ways.In Embryo Politics, Thomas Banchoff provides a comprehensive overview of political struggles aboutembryo research during four decades in four countries-the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Banchoff's book, the first of its kind, demonstrates the impact of particular national histories and institutions on very different patterns of national governance. Over time, he argues, partisan debate and religious-secular polarization have come to overshadow ethical reflection and political deliberation on the moral status of the embryo and the promise of biomedical research. Only by recovering a robust and public ethical debate will we be able to govern revolutionary life-science technologies effectively and responsibly into the future.


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Death before dying
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ISBN: 0199367477 0199969620 9780199969623 1306296900 9781306296908 9780199898176 0199898170 9780199367474 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford

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Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients i

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