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Research Ethics Review in Humanitarian Contexts: The Experience of the Independent Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières

Abstract

Doris Schopper and colleagues describe the functioning of the Médecins Sans Frontières independent ethics review board and the framework used for ethics review, and discuss challenging ethical issues encountered by the board since its inception.

Authors

Schopper D; Upshur R; Matthys F; Singh JA; Bandewar SS; Ahmad A; van Dongen E

Journal

PLOS Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 7,

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)

Publication Date

7 2009

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1000115

ISSN

1549-1277