BioEthics Case

Visit the Yale Center for Bioethics Cases in Research Ethics (Links to an external site.) website. Choose one of the three cases below to read and respond to in this week’s discussion. Be sure to read the background of the study, the ethical and regulatory issues raised by the IRB, and the comments presented at the end of each case.

Choose from one of these three cases:

• Case 1: Payments to subjects who are substance abusers
• Case 5: Reasonable right to privacy for patients accessing hospital services
• Case 6: An ethnographic study of homeless adolescents

Address the following in your response:

• Identify the key ethical issues that are questioned in this case and the category of risk: physical, psychological, social, or economic harm.
• Do you feel the level of questioning and concern by the IRB was appropriate? Were you surprised by any of the IRB’s decisions? Explain.
• Identify a risk or red flag in this study that you may not have considered on your own prior to reading this study.
• Present a new perspective you gained about the IRB, the type of study you read about, the ethics involved, or human subject research processes.

In your replies to peers, respond to at least one peer who chose a different study.