Familiar ethical issues amplified: how members of research ethics committees describe ethical distinctions between disaster and non-disaster research

Abstract Background The conduct of research in settings affected by disasters such as hurricanes, floods and earthquakes is challenging, particularly when infrastructures and resources were already limited pre-disaster. However, since post-disaster research is essential to the improvement of the hum...

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Main Authors: Catherine M. Tansey, James Anderson, Renaud F. Boulanger, Lisa Eckenwiler, John Pringle, Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Ethics
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12910-017-0203-z