Péter Kakuk

• PhD Habil.
• Senior Researcher at Central European University

Az Orvos Világszövetség 2024. októberi közgyűlésén elfogadta a Helsinki Nyilatkozat új, módosított változatát. A Nyilatkozat újdonságait elemezzük, a Nyilatkozat új változatát kívánjuk bemutatni az orvosbiológiai kutatóközösségnek azzal, hogy röviden áttekintjük a dokumentum lényegesebb változtatásait. A Függelék ben az angol eredetiből általunk ma...

The paper aims to understand the various legacies of eugenics in the postwar period to recognize both the continuities and discontinuities of eugenics with an approach which is both conceptually sound and historically correct. Building on earlier work of Lene Koch, the paper endeavours to chart the historical trajectory of eugenics by examining how...

Research integrity climate is an important factor that influences an individual’s behavior. A strong research integrity culture can lead to better research practices and responsible conduct of research (RCR). Therefore, investigations on organizational climate can be a valuable tool to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each group and develop...

Excessive publication pressure has been associated with detrimental aspects for individual researchers and scientific integrity but has not been well-studied in Eastern European countries. The aim of this study is to assess perceived publication pressure and its relationship with career stage, scientific field, and gender in Hungary. The survey inc...

Brazilian research output has been growing annually, and so have its domestic and international research collaborations. Accordingly, it is essential to harmonize research integrity guidance and regulations to ensure research quality. Therefore, this study aims to collect and analyze guidance documents on research integrity from Brazilian research...

Background The areas of Research Ethics (RE) and Research Integrity (RI) are rapidly evolving. Cases of research misconduct, other transgressions related to RE and RI, and forms of ethically questionable behaviors have been frequently published. The objective of this scoping review was to collect RE and RI cases, analyze their main characteristics,...

In this paper our aim is to examine whether research conducted on human participants with LSD-25 (lysergic acid diethylamide) raises unique research ethical questions or demands particular concerns with regard to the design, conduct and follow-up of these studies, and should this be the case, explore and describe those issues. Our analysis is based...

Background Health literacy means our ability to find our way in health issues, to understand health information and how to utilize them, that is how we can understand and use health information. Unfortunately, every second person has serious deficit in this area in Hungary. Objectives We wished to determine the effectiveness of a specialized patie...

This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. On the one hand, several chapters develop a clear and up-to-date u...

Background Conducting research during or in the aftermath of disasters poses many specific practical and ethical challenges. This is particularly the case with research involving human subjects. The extraordinary circumstances of research conducted in disaster settings require appropriate regulations to ensure the protection of human participants....

This entry focuses on the ethical issues of prenatal genetic screening. Genetic screening is a generic term that refers to a set of diagnostic techniques for sample collection and analysis with the aim of detecting fetal anomalies in utero. These different methods will be briefly described and assessed in terms of their ethical aspects. As one of t...

Fostering scientific integrity became an explicit ethical issue during the 1980's as some highly publicised cases in the US drew attention to the nature and risks of scientific fraud. After a long debate on the exact definition of fraud, analyses were begun to investigate the various aspects of fraud in science. As a result, the early years of the...

Sisti, A.D., and Caplan, A.L., and Rimon-Greenspan, H. (eds.): 2013, Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 401 pp. ISBN: 978-0-262-52501-5, Price: 24 EUR.By purchasing this book the reader truly will get what the title and subtitle promise her: a comprehensive interdisciplinary reader attempting to embrace as much of t...

The troublesome issue that illegitimate (guest, honorary, ghost) authorship poses a significant challenge for the integrity of science and that the contemporary usage of journals' Impact Factors (IFs) has a corrupting effect on publication practices are adequately emphasized by David Shaw's paper in this journal [1]. However, his suggested remedy i...

We attempted to identify whether and how the gender of the patient influences interpretations of an illness narrative. We investigated how medical and psychology undergraduates' (n = 313) views change according to the patient's gender, students' gender, and field of study. A short story about a female patient was chosen as stimulus material, and a...

The view that genetics raises distinct issues has been labeled genetic exceptionalism, borrowing a term that was used previously for the exceptional policy treatment of HIV. Genetic exceptionalist policies provide special protections for the access and use of genetic information and usually refer to the privacy interests of individuals regarding th...

This paper focuses on the infamous case of Hwang Woo Suk, the South-Korean national hero and once celebrated pioneer of stem cell research. After briefly discussing the evolution of his publication and research scandal in Science, I will attempt to outline the main reactions that emerged within scientific and bioethical discourses on the problem of...

The discursive explosion that was provoked by the new genetics could support the impression that the ethical and social problems posed by the new genetics are somehow exceptional in their very nature. According to this view we are faced with special ethical and social problems that create a challenge so fundamental that the special label of genethi...

It is an irony of progress that some of the most powerful technological advances in modern medical care that have made it possible to save the lives of thousands of people have also provided the means to prolong the suffering of others. They might be considered to be victims of medical technology that has developed in the last few decades with imme...

We will analyse the representations and conceptualisation of genetics and genetic information in bioethical discourse. Genetics and genetic information is widely believed to be revolutionizing medicine and is sometimes misconceived as having a high predictive value compared to traditional diagnostics. We will attempt to present the inherent limitat...

The author highlights some pragmatic aspects of informed consent that could help to bridge the gap between the currently valid legal requirements and the practical realities of providing medical information in Hungarian health-care settings. One of the crucial point of informed consent is whether the patient properly understood the provided medical...

A projekt témájában szereplő területek ontológiai bizonytalanságával kapcsolatban a kutatás foglalkozott az ún. "Freud temetése" vita argumentumaival és a Freud-üldözést meghatározó kulturális folyamatokkal. Az erre vonatkozó eredményeket a Mélységvesztésben c. könyv tartalmazza. A pszichoanalízis viszontagságainak egyik fontos összetevője a pszich...