Hôpital & ethiqué: Rôles et défis des comités d'éthique clinique

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 297 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0956-2737
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00115878

✦ Synopsis

Over a five year period, Professor Marie-H61~ne Parizeau's research team has scrutinized eleven ethics committees scattered throughout the province of Quebec, Canada: six clinical ethics committees (comites d'ethique clinique, one research ethics committee (comite d' ethique de la recherche), and four committees undertaking the tasks of both research and clinical committees (comite d'ethique mixte).

Under the direction of this eminent expert in bioethics, team members were each given the responsibility to study a specific committee, analyze its history, observe directly its activities, and provide questionnaires to all the committee members in order to collect subjective and objective data regarding the composition of these committees, the level of experience in bioethics of their members, the procedures the members follow to deliberate, and the ultimate functions of such groups. The conclusions of these thorough reviews are compiled in eight chapters (including nine subsections) written by nine authors. Unfortunately, the publisher inadvertently omitted a list of contributors. Alongside Professor Parizeau, the following individuals supplied their expertise to this book: Luc Begin,