Balanced Ethics Review: A Guide for Institutional Review Board Members

This manual will help Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) conduct ethics review that balances the major moral considerations in research with human subjects. Current challenges in the IRB environment are addressed with arguments and insights from dozens of scholars. Useful to the IRB member at any level of experience, Balanced Ethics Review provides the necessary tools needed to create a systemic blueprint for promoting the research and dissemination of scientists and scholars within the standard norms of regulation.

Simon N. Whitney, MD, JD

Associate Professor and William O’Donnell and Regina O’Donnell Chair in Family Medicine

Department of Family and Community Medicine

Associate Professor, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

USA.