Ethical Research. The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation.
Frewer A, Schmidt U, Sprumont D (2020)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Edited Volume
Subtype: Book
Publication year: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190224177
Abstract
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.
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How to cite
APA:
Frewer, A., Schmidt, U., & Sprumont, D. (Eds.) (2020). Ethical Research. The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation. Oxford University Press.
MLA:
Frewer, Andreas, Ulf Schmidt, and Dominique Sprumont, eds. Ethical Research. The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present and Future of Human Experimentation. Oxford University Press, 2020.
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