Ethical decision-making in research: identifying all competing interests. Commentary on "Six Domains of Research Ethics".
Ethical dilemmas are the result of conflicts between potential benefits or harms for two or more competing interests. Therefore, ethical decision-making implies a responsibility to identify those interests, harms, and benefits. For this purpose, researchers have responsibilities to the research, the subjects of research, other researchers, the institution, society, the environment, and self.
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Research Ethics Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0003, USA. kalichman@ucsd.edu
D003657:Decision Making; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D012941:Social Responsibility