ETHICS IN PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH - RESOURCES FOR FACULTY-DEVELOPMENT AND RESIDENT EDUCATION

Controversy has arisen in recent years about the participation of psyc hiatric patients in questionably ethical research protocols. Consequen tly, academic psychiatrists have been called upon to enrich their unde rstanding of the ethical aspects of research and to teach residents mo ve intensively about these issues in scientific methodology. Toward th ese ends, the authors have assembled an extensive resource listing in the area of psychiatric research ethics. Articles were identified thro ugh MEDLINE and BIOETHICS LINE computerized searches and the authors' review of relevant literature through 1996. Emphasis was placed on tho se pieces with special historical value, empirical studies, and papers that provide background on the current controversies in psychiatric r esearch ethics. The references were organized into five logical catego ries. Based on the resource review, the authors briefly discuss areas related to research ethics that merit greater attention in academic ps ychiatry.