To Reveal or Not to Reveal Potentially Harmful Findings: A Dilemma for Public Health Research. (From the Book-Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe)

Abstract

The case study illuminates ethical issues specifically in international collaborative research. It also accentuates researchers obligations and responsibilities in a health research programme and moral and ethical dilemas in dessiminating their findings in a collaborative international research. It also shows the reader how multiple roles, responsibilities and interests of researcher interact and impact the individual and communal goods and outcome of the research.