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Research Ethics and Nursing Science
Author(s) -
LeinoKilpi Helena,
Tuomaala Ulla
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.678
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1471-6712
pISSN - 0283-9318
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-6712.1988.tb00034.x
Subject(s) - nursing ethics , engineering ethics , research ethics , process (computing) , point (geometry) , field (mathematics) , nursing research , nursing , psychology , sociology , medicine , computer science , mathematics , engineering , geometry , pure mathematics , operating system
ABSTRACT. In recent years scientists and scholars have been paying increasing attention to the problem of research ethics. Ethics is always basically to do with values, with what is right and what is wrong. In the present study research ethics is considered as a self‐critical approach to the solutions made in the course of the research process. The aim is to identify those points in the research process where ethical problems assume central importance. One such point is the treatment of human subjects: in the field of nursing science there are certain special requirements that must be taken into consideration because here we often use the clients of the health care system as our main source of information