© 2002 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 24, 1821-1822,
December 18, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
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Ethical Significance of Ethics-Related Empirical Research
Correspondence to: Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D., Department of Clinical Bioethics, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bldg. 10, Rm. 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892–1156 (e-mail: fmiller@nih.gov).
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Empirical research designed to address ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research has grown enormously over the past 15 years. However, the value of ethics-related empirical research, which depends on the ethical significance of research questions and study results, has not received the careful, critical attention it deserves. The article by Joffe and Weeks (1) in this issue of the Journal highlights some of the challenges in the state-of-the-art of empirical research on ethical issues in clinical research.
The authors orient their research and interpret their findings in terms of two ethically important and related ideas: the differences between medical
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