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Ethical Research

The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation

Andreas (Professor, Professor, Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Frewer & Dominique (Adjunct Professor of Health Law, Adjunct Professor of Health Law, University of Neuchatel) Sprumont & Ulf Schmidt

Ethical Research

Ethical Research

The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation

Ethical Research

 

Ethical Research is a new and important book focusing on the centrality of the Declaration of Helsinki to the protection of human subjects involved in human experimentation. The text illuminates the history, nature, scope, context, and controversies that challenge modern research ethics.


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Beschrijving Ethical Research

At the heart of research with human beings is the moral notion that the experimental subject is altruistic, and is primarily concerned for the welfare of others. Beneath the surface, however, lies a very different ethical picture. Individuals participating in potentially life-saving research sometimes take on considerable risks to their own well-being. Efforts to safeguard human participants in clinical trials have intensified ever since the first version of the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki (1964) and are now codified in many national and international laws and regulations. However, a comprehensive understanding of how this cornerstone document originated, changed, and functions today does not yet exist in the sphere of human research.

Ethical Research brings together the work of leading experts from the fields of bioethics, health and medical law, the medical humanities, biomedicine, the medical sciences, philosophy, and history. Together, they focus on the centrality of the Declaration of Helsinki to the protection of human subjects involved in experimentation in an increasingly complex industry and in the government-funded global research environment. The volume's historical and contemporary perspectives on human research address a series of fundamental questions: Is our current human protection regime adequately equipped to deal with new ethical challenges resulting from advances in high-tech biomedical science? How important has the Declaration been in non-Western regions, for example in Eastern Europe, Africa, China, and South America? Why has the bureaucratization of regulation led to calls to pay greater attention to professional responsibility? Ethical Research offers insight into the way in which philosophy, politics, economics, law, science, culture, and society have shaped, and continue to shape, the ideas and practices of human research.


ISBN
9780190224172
Pagina's
610
Verschenen
NUR
870
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

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