Topic-based Modules

These modules provide background and report-specific material on topics common across several Bioethics Commission reports. They use the Bioethics Commission’s ethical analyses and applications of foundational ethical principles to contemporary biomedical and scientific challenges to support instructors’ efforts to integrate ethics into their coursework.

Community Engagement

• Community Engagement Background
• Community Engagement in New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies
• Community Engagement in Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research
• Community Engagement in Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing
• Community Engagement in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response

Informed Consent

• Informed Consent Background
• Informed Consent in “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948
• Informed Consent in Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing
• Informed Consent in Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research
• Informed Consent in Anticipate and Communicate: Ethical Management of Incidental and Secondary Findings in the Clinical, Research, and Direct-to-Consumer Contexts  
• Informed Consent in Gray Matters

Privacy

• Privacy Background
• Privacy in Privacy and Progress in Whole Genome Sequencing
• Privacy in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response - See more at: http://bioethics.gov/node/5393#sthash.BMoeD2zg.dpuf

  Privacy in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response

  Privacy in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response - See more at: http://bioethics.gov/node/5393#sthash.BMoeD2zg.dpuf

Research Design

• Research Design Background
• Research Design in Gray Matters: Integrative Approaches for Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society (Gray Matters, Vol. 1)
• Research Design in Ethics and Ebola: Public Health Planning and Response

Vulnerable Populations

• Vulnerable Populations Background
• Vulnerable Populations in “Ethically Impossible” STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948
• Vulnerable Populations in Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research
• Vulnerable Populations in Gray Matters