Charles Weijer is a philosopher and physician. His academic interests center on the
ethics of medical research. Charles has written about using placebos in clinical trials,
weighing the benefits and harms of medical research, and protecting communities in
research. Charles’ most recent work talks about a special kind of clinical trial in which
groups of people – rather than individual patients – are randomized to one treatment or
another. He is one of the co-founders of the Rotman Institute and he has worked with a
number of organizations around the world, including the World Health Organization, the
United Nations, and the U.S. National Academies Institute of Medicine. Charles’ work is
motivated by the belief that medical research raises profound philosophical questions
about the nature of our obligations to one another, particularly in relationships of
inequality, such as that between doctor and patient.
Articles
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Researchers’ perceptions of ethical challenges in cluster randomized trials: a qualitative analysis (with Andrew D. McRae, Carol Bennett, Judith Belle Brown, Robert Boruch, Jamie Brehaut, Shazia Chaudhry, Allan Donner, Martin Eccles, Jeremy Grimshaw, Merrick Zwarenstein, and Monica Taljaard), Trials (2013)
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What is the role and authority of gatekeepers in cluster randomized trials in health research? (with Antonio Gallo, Angela White, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Robert Boruch, Jamie C. Brehaut, Allan Donner, Martin P. Eccles, Andrew D. McRae, Raphael Saginur, Merrick Zwarenstein, and Monica Taljaard), Trials (2012)
Books
Contributions to Books and Reference Works
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Introduction (with Oonagh Corrigan and John McMillan), The Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine (2009)
Letters to the Editor
Theses and Reports
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Integrating Bioethics and Health Law Into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (with Susan Sherwin, Françoise Baylis, Alan Bernstein, Timothy Caulfield, Bernard Dickens, Jocelyn Downie, Bartha Knoppers, Thérèse Leroux, Neil MacDonald, Michael McDonald, and Janet Storch) (1999)
Presentations
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Rotman Institute Opening (with Joseph Rotman, Janice Deakin, Jane Maienschein, and Philip Kitcher), Rotman Events and Speakers Series (2010)
Reviews of Books and Software
