Range and Cotton (1995) showed that many of the articles reviewed in their study did not include a line specifying institutional review board-approved procurement of informed parental permission and child assent for child ...

The ethics of using normal children as subjects in nontherapeutic research have been much debated, with some commentators arguing that children should never be exposed to any physical or psychological harm for this purpose. ...

Healthcare ethics committees which have focused almost entirely on clinical ethics, now need to prepare to deal with organizational ethics, a field that is attracting increasing attention. As they did with clinical ethics, ...