Spinning a stem cell ethics web

Account Res. 2013;20(2):107-26. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2013.768930.

Abstract

The goal of this study was to provide an ethics education resource for trainees and researchers in the Canadian Stem Cell Network that would address the multiple ethical challenges in stem cell research including accountability in and for research across its multiple dimensions. The website was built using a bottom-up type approach based on an ethics needs assessment in combination with a top-down expert-driven component. There have been 3,615 visitors to the website since it was launched in July, 2011. The ongoing rate of returning visitors (20%) indicates that the website is becoming a valuable tool used multiple times.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Internationality
  • Internet*
  • Social Networking*
  • Stem Cell Research / ethics*