Ethics committees, principles and consequences.
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Ethics committees, principles and consequences.
When ethics committees evaluate the research proposals submitted to them by biomedical scientists, they can seek guidance from laws and regulations, their own beliefs, values and experiences, and from the theories of philosophers. The starting point of this paper is that philosophers can only be helpful to the members of ethics committees if they take into account in their models both the basic...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.24.2.81