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The Physician—Researcher

Role Conflicts

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Alzheimer’s Dementia

Part of the book series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society ((CIBES))

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What is the role of the physician? What is the role of the researcher? Are these roles inherently in conflict with each other? If so, are they so much in conflict that when one professional attempts to play both roles simultaneously we should impose special procedural protections for the rights and welfare of the patient—subjects? Or is the conflict so threatening and so incorrigible that we should forbid any professional to play both roles simultaneously?

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  1. Robert J. Levine
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  1. Department of Biology and the Center of Applied Research and Urban Policy, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA

    Vijaya L. Melnick

  2. Department of Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA

    Nancy Neveloff Dubler

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Levine, R.J. (1985). The Physician—Researcher. In: Melnick, V.L., Dubler, N.N. (eds) Alzheimer’s Dementia. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5174-3_4

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