Robert John Levine MD
Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology; Chair: Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics; Director, Law, Policy and Ethics Core, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health.
Research Interests
Medical ethics; Human subject research ethics; International research; Research involving children and adolescents; Informed consent; Institutional review boards; Regulations for the protection of human subjects; Doctor/patient relationship
Current Projects
General topics in the field of research ethics.Research involving children and adolescents as subjects.
Dysfunctional regulation of research involving human subjects.
Research involving pregnant women as subjects.
The social context of research involving human subjects.
Research Summary
In the last 35 years, most of Dr. Levine's research, teaching and publications have been in the field of medical ethics with particular concentration on the ethics of research involving human subjects.
Selected Publications
- Levine, R.J.: The Nature, Scope and Justification of Clinical Research: What is Research? Who is a Subject? In The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics, edited by E.J. Emanuel, C. Grady, R.A. Crouch, R. K. Lie, F.M.Miller and D. Wendler, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, Chapter 21, pp. 211-221.
- Levine, RJ: Research Involving Adolescents as Subjects: Ethical Considerations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1135, 280-286, 2008.
- Fost, N. and Levine, RJ: The Dysregulation of Human Subjects Research. Journal of the American Medical Association. 298: 2196-2198, 2007.
- Levine R J: Placebo controls in clinical trials of new therapies for conditions for which there are known effective treatments. In Guess HA, Kleinman A, Kusek JW and Engel, LW (editors) The Science of the Placebo: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda BMJ Books, London, 2002, pp. 264-280.
- Levine, R.J.: The need to revise the Declaration of Helsinki. New England Journal of Medicine 341:531-534, 1999.
- Levine, R.J.: Randomized clinical trials: Ethical considerations. In: Advances in Bioethics, Vol. 5, ed. By R.B. Edwards, VAI Press, Stamford, Ct, 1999, pp. 113-145.
Articles
Fall/Winter 2004
The bioethicist: an emperor with no clothes?
Last fall readers of this magazine were invited to present “thorny professional situations” to a panel of “bioethics...
Autumn 2011
2011-2012 Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine
The Executive Committee of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine directs association activities, links the School...
Summer 2001
Smart cards for health care’s future?
Before the end of the decade, patients may be arriving at the doctor’s office with their personal genetic information...
Winter 2009
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63, immediate past co-director of Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics,...
Summer 2005
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS
Robert J. Levine, M.D., HS ’63, professor of medicine and co-chair of the Yale Bioethics Project, has received the...
Spring 2008
Robert J. Levine, M.D.
Robert J. Levine, M.D., professor of medicine, has been appointed to the National Academy of Sciences’ Panel on...
Fall 1998
A path for prevention
When 20,000 of the world's top AIDS researchers gathered in Geneva in late June, one clear message emerged: Prevention...
Summer 2003
Showdown
When Ross M. Tonkens, M.D. ’74, arrived in Las Vegas in 1990, the gold rush was on. Casinos were expanding, the work...
Fall 1998
Yale ethicist defends safeguards in human investigations
Is the pace of medical advances moving beyond existing safeguards regarding the use of human subjects in...
