Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications
Research in Epidemiology and Biostatistics Publications examines age, environment, chronic disease, social health determinants, maternal and child health, and mental health all in an effort to understand and improve the health of populations as a whole. These publications contain risk assessment and examinations of various health determinants to understand the health and circumstances of certain populations.
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Submissions from 2000
When Doctors Say "No", Charles Weijer
Protecting Communities in Biomedical Research, Charles Weijer and E. J. Emanuel
Clinical Equipoise and Not the Uncertainty Principle Is the Moral Underpinning of the Randomised Controlled Trial, Charles Weijer, Stanley H. Shapiro, and Kathleen Cranley Glass
Submissions from 1999
Protecting Human Research Subjects: Case-Based Learning for Canadian Research Ethics Boards and Researchers, Françoise Baylis, A. Ireland, David Kaufman, and Charles Weijer
Duty and Healing: Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic, Benjamin Freedman and Charles Weijer
Structuring the Review of Human Genetics Protocols Part-III: Gene Therapy Studies, Kathleen C. Glass, Charles Weijer, Denis Cournoyer, Trudo Lemmens, Roberta M. Palmour, Stanley H. Shapiro, and Benjamin Freedman
Voting Ourselves Rights: A Critique of the Canadian Medical Association Charter for Physicians, Nuala Kenny, Charles Weijer, and Francoise Baylis
Placebo-controlled Studies in Schizophrenia: Ethical and Scientific Perspectives. Panel Discussion, T. M. Lemmens, P. S. Appelbaum, W. Carpenter, C. McCarthy, C. Peterson, D. Streiner, and Charles Weijer
Integrating Bioethics and Health Law Into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Susan Sherwin, Françoise Baylis, Alan Bernstein, Timothy Caulfield, Bernard Dickens, Jocelyn Downie, Bartha Knoppers, Thérèse Leroux, Neil MacDonald, Michael McDonald, Janet Storch, and Charles Weijer
Variability of Target Volume Delineation in Cervical Esophageal Cancer, Patricia Tai, Jake Van Dyk, Edward Yu, Jerry Battista, Larry Stitt, and Terry Coad
Another Tuskegee?, Charles Weijer
Consensus-seeking Roundtable on Placebos in Clinical Research, Charles Weijer
Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcomes Data in Context, Charles Weijer
Medical Futility: Physicians, not Patients, Call the Shots, Charles Weijer
Placebo-controlled Trials in Schizophrenia: Are They Ethical? Are They Necessary?, Charles Weijer
Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges, Charles Weijer
Research Involving the Vulnerable Sick, Charles Weijer
Selecting Subjects for Participation in Clinical Research: One Sphere of Justice, Charles Weijer
The Analysis of Risks and Potential Benefits in Research, Charles Weijer
Thinking Clearly about Research Risk: Implications of the Work of Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer
We’re Alright Jack, Charles Weijer
What's the Price of a Research Subject?, Charles Weijer
Why I Am Not a Futilitarian (Review of When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility), Charles Weijer
Why Should We Include Women and Minorities in Randomized Controlled Trials?, Charles Weijer and R. A. Crouch
Protecting Communities in Research: Current Guidelines and Limits of Extrapolation, Charles Weijer, Gary Goldsand, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel