Nathan Emmerich, in a recent issue of Research Ethics Review, has suggested that the ‘professional ethicist’ should be considered an ‘expert member’ in the research ethics committee. He raised a number of interesting questions and in seeking to answer them one may come to what may be regarded as an unexpected conclusion – that there is a prior need to clearly explain the concept of ‘ethical expertise’ and the ‘ethics professional’.
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EmmerichN. On the ethics committee: the expert member, the lay member and the absentee ethicist. Res Ethics Rev2009; 5(1): 9–13.
