Ethics review committees [in biomedical research] in the Nordic Countries: History, organization, and assignments

✍ Scribed by Jan Helge Solbakk

• Book ID: 104625048
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 307 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-2737
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00057810

✦ Synopsis

Introduction.

"You Nordic people all look similar. You all have the same names, and you all live in countries too small to be of any general interest". This somewhat provocative statement by a well-known American psychiatrist attending a conference in bioethics in summer 1990 could serve as one motivation for trying to provide an accurate description of the ethics committee systems in the Nordic countries. The description is limited to three Nordic Countries --Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, representing three different ways of organizing regional and national bodies that address issues in medical ethics. My hope is to show that even in small countries with close cultural relations there is room for plurality in the field of medical ethics.