This book presents a collection of essays that aims to make public the social discourse on ethics of health research used by responsible, practising researchers in order to demonstrate the detailed and fine consideration given to the ethics of the research task.

Introduction -- Ethics, Ethics Committees and the Researcher -- What’s the Use of Bioethics? -- Research Ethics Committees: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? -- Ethics and Epidemiology: Problems for the Researcher -- Medicine and the Ethical Conditions of Modernity -- Basic Research and Experimental Designs -- Basic Research and the Ethics of Resource Allocation -- Traditional Scientific Designs and Ethics -- Clinical Care and Clinical Research: A False Dichotomy -- Basic Research and Experiment: A Summing up -- Social Science Disciplines -- Social Science Health Research -- Unobtrusive Methods in Delicate Situations -- My Soul Has Gone: Appropriate Methods for a Delicate Situation -- Behavioural Research in Health: Individual Subject vs Person in Context -- Health Economics and Policy: Ethical Dilemmas in the Science of Scarcity -- Representing Community Views -- Representing the Community: Issues from Applied Research Experiences -- Ethics and Health Research in Aboriginal Communities -- Women’s Health: Methods and Ethics -- Funding Health-Promoting Research: A Consumer Perspective -- The Clinicians’ View of Research -- Clinicians Studying Their Own Practice: An Introduction -- Mathematical Models and Clinical Practice -- Studying Narratives of Ageing and Social Problems in Medical Encounters -- Primary Care: Issues for General Practice Research -- Conclusion