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How to navigate ethical frameworks when research teams span medical traditions

Our research team includes Western bioethicists and traditional healers and we can't agree on informed consent protocols for our community health study - what feels ethical in one framework feels harmful in another and we're supposed to publish findings that serve everyone.

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Competing definitions of harm, autonomy, and healing create paralysis when diverse ethical systems must collaborate.

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“Where Are You with Medical ethics across traditions?”

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