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Environmental Health Research Involving Human Subjects: Ethical Issues
Author(s) -
David B. Resnik
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
environmental health insights
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 20
ISSN - 1178-6302
DOI - 10.4137/ehi.s892
Subject(s) - confidentiality , human health , human research , ethical issues , informed consent , environmental health , medicine , engineering ethics , internet privacy , psychology , alternative medicine , computer science , computer security , engineering , pathology
This article reviews some of the ethical issues that arise in environmental health research with human subjects, such as minimizing risks to subjects, balancing benefits and risks in research, intentional exposure studies with human subjects, protecting third parties in research, informing subjects about environmental hazards, communicating health information to subjects, and protecting privacy and confidentiality.

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