The ‘ethics committee’ job is administrative: a response to commentaries

What job should authorities give to review boards? We are grateful to Soren Holm, Rosamond Rhodes, Julian Savulescu and G Owen Schaefer for their thoughtful commentaries on our answer.1-4 Here we add to the discussion.Let us summarise the claims for which we argued.5 Relevant authorities can task bo...

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Main Author: Moore, Andrew John (Author)
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2018
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 44, Issue: 7, Pages: 495-496
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