Graduate Catalog

ETHC 637 INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH ETHICS

This course acquaints students with basic concepts in research ethics, examines the ethical and philosophical issues raised by involving human subjects in research, and reviews concepts of risks and benefits, vulnerability, privacy and confidentiality, undue inducement, exploitation, equipoise, and therapeutic misconception. By the end of the course, students are able to analyze research protocols and assess the ethical appropriateness of such protocols.

Credits

3

Offered

201309