Module232025

07/05/2025

Ethics and Paediatric Research

HW Dalrymple, PhD(Med), PhD (Law), FRSM

Camden & King’s Cross Research Ethics Committee

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London

Formerly Vice-Chair, Centre for Paediatric Clinical Development and Head, Materno-Foetal Medicine, ICON plc.

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Thinking about ethics…..

I hope to: outline various ethical structures relating to research in children illustrate some of the current inconsistencies in our ethical thinking; challenge some of the widely-held views many of us hold; induce you to question whether we are doing the best we can; leave you with a heightened sense of awareness of ethics “issues”.

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