A component of the research process, whose purpose is to protect both the researcher and the participants in the research, which should have their dignity, rights, safety, and welfare respected. The existence of ethical approval is mandatory in all biomedical research and also in all research on human subjects that include vulnerable populations, or in situations that could bring, in any way, harm to the participant.
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From the Ethics of the Research Project to the Ethical Communication of Science: Particularities in the Social and Humanistic Fields
Antonio Sandu (University of Suceava, Romania & LUMEN Research Center in Social and Humanistic Sciences, Romania)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 42
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6310-5.ch001
Abstract
A postmodern interference between bioethics, epistemology, and philosophy of science arises from the field of ethics of research on human subjects. Being a research with a high level of subjectivity, it will also load the researcher with the responsibility towards the social meaning of the results, the correctness of using the methodology, honesty, presenting the limits of research, including the epistemic and methodological ones, as well as the needs of the subjects participating in the investigation. The ethics of research is based on a series of principles, of which the most significant are the honesty of obtaining and presenting results, the non-harm of human subjects, the respect for the autonomy of the subjects, and the principle of beneficence.