emerald PUBLISHING Ethics and Integrity in Health and Life Sciences Research: 4 (Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, 4)

Product Description Life and health sciences and biomedical studies have developed rapidly over the last few decades raising previously unanticipated ethical concerns and questions. New and emerging technologies require novel approaches, protocols and raised awareness to ensure adequate levels of biosecurity and biosafety as well as the implementation of special measures to prevent their potential misuse or dual use. This volume brings together an international collection of prominent ethics experts in health and life sciences, with the aim of providing clear and comprehensive guidelines for the establishment of efficient ethical strategies related to current and emerging biotechnologies and health research. Important current topics in research ethics including CRISPR-Cas9 technologies, gene editing, 'big data' in healthcare and life sciences, nutrition in medicine among other topics have found their place in this volume. In addition, the volume discusses the prospects for the implementation of an international unification of ethical standards in life sciences. Review This volume compiles 11 essays by bioethics, medical, and other researchers from Europe and the US, who explore ethics and integrity in health and life sciences research. They address the work of the TRUST project towards counteracting the practice of ethics dumping through the development of tools for the improvement of research governance structures; lessons learned from care of patients with the Ebola virus; ethical challenges in the digital era; ethical aspects relating to big data; governance approaches to safety and security in research in relation to emerging technologies; governing gene editing in the European Union; the responsible and ethical use of genome editing technologies; ethical issues in dual-use brain science; the ethical challenges of informed consent, decision-making capacity, and vulnerability in clinical dementia research; ethical and moral responsibility in diet therapy research; and the mismatch of the science of nutrition and medical practice. -- Annotation ©2019 ― (protoview.com) About the Author Dr Zvonimir Koporc is University Associate Professor in Physiology, UNICATH Zagreb, Croatia. He has published extensively on immunology and edits the European Journal of Biology. He has achieved international recognition for expertise on research in life sciences (immunology) and professional standards in research ethics. His primary consultative activity in ethics and in life sciences at present is for the European Commission (EC) Ethics Unit, Directorate General for Science and Innovation, the Research Executive Agency (REA) and the European Research Council (ERC). He has acted as consultant, adviser and/or delivered training on research ethics at the European and national level. His PhD in chemistry was awarded by the Technical University of Vienna, Austria.