Research work · 2008
Ethics And Environmental Epidemiology
Colin Soskolne
environmental epidemiology Study Methods And Application
Abstract
Abstract Epidemiologists, as with other professionals, are paying increasing attention to the topic of ethics; that is, the norms of professional conduct. This is partly because publicly funded enterprises and agencies–many of which employ epidemiologists–need to be held accountable for the activities of their members. This said, it was only recently, in the mid-1980s, that epidemiologists introduced the discussion and consideration of ethics to their profession [1]. Environmental epidemiologists formally acknowledged this topic through the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE), which stimulated discussion of ethical issues when it established its Standing Committee on Ethics and Philosophy in 1991.