ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2021
Back to WHAT? The role of research ethics in pandemic times.
Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Nipah virus and the lessons of COVID-19: are we prepared for the next pandemic threat?Infectious medicine · 2026Review
- Adapting research ethics for global health crises: a systematic analysis of COVID-19 pandemic research guidelines and reflections on their post-pandemic implications.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- The Politicization of Research Ethics and Integrity and its Implications for Research Governance.Journal of academic ethics · 2025Article
- Government Initiatives for Research Ethics During COVID-19 Pandemic in Korea.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
- A new day for human challenge trials?Trends in molecular medicine · 2022Article
- Participatory Approach to Develop Evidence-Based Clinical Ethics Guidelines for the Care of COVID-19 Patients: A Mixed Method Study From Nepal.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Challenges and proposed solutions in making clinical research on COVID-19 ethical: a status quo analysis across German research ethics committees.BMC medical ethics · 2021Article
- Accessibility to Non-COVID Health Services in the World During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Review.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented threatening situation worldwide with an urgent need for critical reflection and new knowledge production, but also a need for imminent action despite prevailing knowledge gaps and multilevel uncertainty. With regard to the role of research ethics in these pandemic times some argue in favor of exceptionalism, others, including the authors of this paper, emphasize the urgent need to remain committed to core ethical principles and fundamental human rights obligations all reflected in research regulations and guidelines carefully crafted over time. In this paper we disentangle some of the arguments put forward in the ongoing debate about Covid-19 human challenge studies (CHIs) and the concomitant role of health-related research ethics in pandemic times. We suggest it might be helpful to think through a lens differentiating between risk, strict uncertainty and ignorance. We provide some examples of lessons learned by harm done in the name of research in the past and discuss the relevance of this legacy in the current situation.
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