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Is There a Place for Benevolent Deception?

December 20, 2016
In ‘Ethical jurisdictions in bioethical research’, J.M. Mfutso-Bengu and T. Taylor describe a conflict between a host ethics committee in Malawi and a remote ethical committee in USA, concerning the wording of a consent form. The study in question involved the removal of the eyes of children who had died...

Elegant Variations

December 20, 2016
Richard Rorty constructs a vision of the ideal citizen and the ideal society on the basis of three basic concepts: ethnocentrism, liberalism, and irony. This article critically examines his understanding of these three concepts and how he interrelates them. I will argue that Rorty’s political philosophy is lacking in internal...

Appropriateness of no-fault compensation for research related injuries from an African perspective: an appeal for action by African countries.

August 15, 2016

Dr. Stuart Rennie is now part of the Re-Engaging Ethics Team

August 2, 2016
Dr. Stuart Rennie, Associate Professor, UNC Social Medicine, is the ethics consultant for Re-engaging Ethics: Ethical Issues in Engaged Research. The project was awarded by the Greenwall Foundation, and aims to create guidelines to support ethical engagement in community engaged research. These guidelines are intended to aid academic and community...

searcHIV

July 29, 2016
Social and Ethical Aspects of Research on Curing HIV A Working Group Co-Principle Investigators: Stuart Rennie Joseph Tucker One of the defining qualities of living with HIV has been that it is incurable, and this tenet has powerfully formed and disrupted individual, organizational, and institutional identities. But recent medical advances...

‘I Can Coexist with HIV’: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions of HIV Cure Among People Living with HIV in Guangzhou, China

July 15, 2016
Little is known about perceptions of HIV cure among people living with HIV (PLHIV), despite them being crucial stakeholders in ongoing HIV cure research. A qualitative research study was conducted in Guangzhou, China, to explore the perceptions of HIV cure among PLHIV in relation to their views on HIV treatment,...

Appropriateness of no-fault compensation for research-related injuries from an African perspective

June 8, 2016
Appropriateness of no-fault compensation for research-related injuries from an African perspective: an appeal for action by African countries Patrick Dongosolo Kamalo, Lucinda Manda-Taylor, and Stuart Rennie Published 2016 June 3 on The Journal of Medical Ethics. Compensation for research-related injuries (RRIs) remains a challenge in the current environment of global...

Hidden costs: The ethics of cost-effectiveness analyses for health interventions in resource-limited settings

June 8, 2016
Hidden costs: The ethics of cost-effectiveness analyses for health interventions in resource-limited settings Sarah E. Rutstein, Joan T. Price, Nora E. Rosenberg, Stuart M. Rennie, Andrea K. Biddle, & William C. Miller Published 2016 May 4 in Journal of Public Health. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is an increasingly appealing tool for...