ethics
Pharma, Social and Human Research Subjects Recruitment
It is not a particularly comfortable time for the pharmaceutical industry. Several extremely profitable drugs, such as Lipitor, Zyprexa, and Levaquin, have lost their patents, whilst other big sellers, like Plavix, Seroquel and Singulair, lose theirs this year. With an apparent lack of replacement ‘blockbusters’ in the pipeline, the big, ‘brand-name’ pharmaceutical companies’ profits seem… more
Support, Advise, Share: Three Things to Remember When Engaging With Online Health Groups
How organizations can best engage with online health groups
New Article: Responsibility and Social Media Research in Healthcare
When professional healthcare researchers encounter incorrect medical information in social media, do they have a responsibility to intervene and to correct the mistake?
The Case of the Twittering Kidney Patient: Healthcare and the Ethics of Social Media Monitoring
A look at the ethical issues involved when healthcare organisations chose to conduct social media monitoring.
Teleology, deontology, chocolate chip muffins, iced buns and social media
Bear with me kids, the title is proper odd but there’s a point buried in my oddity (anyone who knows me, knows this to usually be the case…) When I was studying ethics as a philosophy student, I was taught a useful analogy to understand teleological and deontological views of morality: Teleological morality is based… more