Environmental Health Research Involving Human Subjects: Ethical Issues

Overview

Journal Environ Health Insights

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2010 Apr 20

PMID 20401332

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Authors

David B Resnik

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Abstract

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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