title: In the ruins of Babel: pitfalls on the way toward a universal language for research ethics and benefit sharing.
abstract: At the end of a paper on international research ethics published in the July-August 2010 issue of the Hastings Center Report, London and Zollman argue the need for grounding our duties in international medical and health-related research within a broader normative framework of social, distributive, and rectificatory justice. The same goes for Thomas Pogge, who, in a whole range of publications during the past years, has argued for a human-rights-based approach to international research. In a thought-provoking paper in the June 2010 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, Angela J. Ballantyne argues that “the global bioethics priority” in medical and health-related research ethics today is how to do research fairly in an unjust world.
authors.affiliation: Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Jan Helge
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Solbakk
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003906:Developing Countries; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006381:Helsinki Declaration; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000941:ethics; D007391:International Cooperation; D011203:Poverty