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Bioethics Glossary

NIEHS has several resources available to researchers, both inside and outside of the institute.

Filter by First Letter:

A

  • Accountability
  • Accreditation
  • Adverse event (AE)
  • Amendment
  • Animal care committee
  • Animal rights
  • Animal welfare
  • Asilomar Conference
  • Assent
  • Audit
  • Author
  • Authorship, honorary
  • Authorship, ghost
  • Autonomy

B

  • Bad apples theory
  • Belmont Report
  • Beneficence
  • Benefit
  • Bias
  • Biobank
  • Bioethics
  • Biotechnology 

C

  • CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) certified laboratory
  • Censorship
  • Citation amnesia
  • Classified research
  • Clinical investigator
  • Clinical trial, active controlled
  • Clinical trial, equipoise
  • Clinical trial, phases
  • Clinical trial, placebo controlled
  • Clinical trial, registration
  • Clinical trial, surrogate endpoint
  • Clinical trial
  • Clinical utility
  • Coercion
  • Collaboration agreement
  • Commercialization
  • Commodification
  • Common law
  • Common rule
  • Community review
  • Competence
  • Compliance
  • Conduct
  • Confidentiality
  • Conflict of interest (COI)
  • Conflict of interest, apparent or perceived
  • Conflict of interest, institutional
  • Conflict of interest, management
  • Consent
  • Consequentialism
  • Continuing review
  • Copyright
  • Correction (or errata)
  • Culture of integrity 

E

  • Engagement, community
  • Engagement, public
  • Emergency research
  • Epistemology
  • Error
  • Ethical dilemma
  • Ethical reasoning
  • Ethical relativism
  • Ethical universalism
  • Ethics (or morals)
  • Ethics, applied
  • Ethics, meta-
  • Ethics, normative vs. descriptive
  • Exempt research
  • Exculpatory language
  • Expedited review
  • Experiment
  • Exploitation
  • Expression of concern

F

  • Fabrication
  • Falsification
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Fraud
  • Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

G

  • Good clinical practices (GCPs)
  • Good laboratory practices (GLPs)
  • Good manufacturing practices (GMPs)
  • Good record-keeping practices (GRKPs)
  • Guideline

H

  • Harassment
  • Harassment, sexual
  • Helsinki Declaration
  • Honesty
  • Human subjects research

I

  • Image manipulation
  • Incidental finding
  • Individualized research results
  • Informed consent
  • Informed consent, blanket (general)
  • Informed consent, documentation
  • Informed consent, specific
  • Informed consent, tiered
  • Informed consent, waiver
  • Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
  • Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  • Integrity
  • Intellectual Property

J

  • Justice

K

  • Kantianism

L

  • Law
  • Lead
  • Legal Authorized Representative (LAR)

M

  • Material Transfer Agreement (MTA)
  • Media Embargo
  • Mentor
  • Minimal Risk
  • Misconduct
  • Mismanagement of Funds
  • Morality

N

  • National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Inspector General (OIG)
  • Nazi Research on Human Subjects
  • Negligence
  • Non-compliance
  • Nuremberg Code

O

  • Objectivity
  • Observer (or Hawthorne) effect
  • Openness
  • Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP)
  • Office of Research Integrity (ORI)

P

  • Paternalism
  • Patent
  • Peer review
  • Peer review, double-blind
  • Peer review, open
  • Peer review, single-blind
  • Placebo
  • Placebo effect
  • Plagiarism
  • Plagiarism, "self"
  • Politics
  • Precautionary principle (PP)
  • Precision environmental health
  • Preponderance of evidence
  • Privacy
  • Proprietary research
  • Protocol
  • Protocol, deviation
  • Publication
  • Publication bias

Q

  • Quality control/quality assurance
  • Questionable research practices (QRPs)

R

  • Randomization
  • Randomized controlled trial (RCT)
  • Regulation
  • Reliance agreement
  • Remuneration
  • Reproducibility
  • Research
  • Research compliance
  • Research ethics
  • Research integrity
  • Research institution
  • Research integrity official (RIO)
  • Research misconduct
  • Research misconduct, inquiry vs. investigation
  • Research record
  • Research sponsor
  • Research subject (also called research participant)
  • Respect for persons
  • Responsible conduct of research (RCR)
  • Retraction
  • Right
  • Risk
  • Risk/benefit analysis
  • Risk management
  • Risk minimization
  • Risks, reasonable

S

  • Salami science
  • Scientific (or academic) freedom
  • Scientific validity (or rigor)
  • Scientism
  • Self-deception
  • Self-regulation
  • Singapore Statement
  • Social responsibility
  • Social value
  • Speciesism
  • Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  • Statistical significance
  • Subject selection
  • Surrogate decision-maker

T

  • Technocracy
  • Technological-fix
  • Testability
  • Text recycling
  • Therapeutic misconception
  • Three Rs
  • Transparency
  • Tuskegee Syphilis Study

u

  • Unanticipated problem (UP)
  • Uncertainty, epistemic
  • Uncertainty, moral
  • Undue influence
  • Utilitarianism

v

  • Value
  • Value, conflict
  • Value, instrumental
  • Value, intrinsic
  • Value, scale of
  • Virtue
  • Virtue ethics
  • Voluntariness
  • Vulnerable subject

W

  • Whistleblower
  • Withdrawal
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