Dr Chad M. Teven joins Ethics Talk to unravel some current and a few hoped-for surgical applications of AI and to model for us how we should be critically engaging with AI surgical research and scholarship.

Dr Emma Cooke joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Holland Kaplan: “How Should Technology-Dependent Patients’ Care Be Managed Collaboratively to Avoid Turfing?”

Emergency research that requires exception from informed consent presents challenges in defining and reaching the at-risk community.

Bias toward allopathic medicine in the research funding and publication of study results makes it difficult for physicians and others to find accurate data about the efficacy of non-Western, nonallopathic treatments.

There are advantages and objections to conducting clinical trials in middle-income nations and possible approaches to overcoming the objections.

Institutional review boards (IRBs) have the responsibility to ensure the protection of human-research subjects and are legally liable if they fail to do so.

Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a role in approving research that involves human subjects.

Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a role in approving research that involves human subjects.

A historical look at dermatological testing and the regulations that have been enacted to protect the patients who test skin care products.