The Duty to Look for Incidental Findings in Imaging Research

Julian J. Koplin, Martin R. Turner, Julian Savulescu
2020 Ethics & Human Research  
Imaging research regularly yields incidental findings that may have personal medical or reproductive decision-making significance to study participants. It is widely assumed that researchers have a moral obligation to disclose at least some kinds of incidental findings to research participants. However, it is also a widely held view that researchers do not have a moral obligation to actively look for abnormalities irrelevant to the aims of their study. This paper challenges that assumption.
doi:10.1002/eahr.500043 pmid:32233114 fatcat:6pqg7c432jeqja376cwzkc5wbu