Human experimentation: regulations and ethics

The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation

Human Experimentation: Ethics in the Consent Situation

The coupling of the art of healing with the method of scientific investigation for medical research in human beings causes many profound questions to leap into the minds of those whose consciences have been shaped within democratic and religious institutions. Many medical investigators who have carried out research in human subjects have attempted to describe the professional-ethical conditions...

Ethics and animal experimentation: what is debated?

The purpose of this article is to raise some points for an understanding of the contemporary debate over the ethics of using animals in scientific experiments. We present the various positions from scientific and moral perspectives establishing different ways of viewing animals, as well as several concepts like 'animal ethics', 'animal rights', and 'animal welfare'. The paper thus aims to analy...

The real world--regulations and ethics.

The Medical Devices Amendment was published in 1976, when the Food & Drug Administration regulations were amended to include devices, basically to protect the public. I’m also going to talk about CLIA 1988 (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act), which was passed by Congress in 1988 and regulates laboratory operation. It really has not yet been implemented, although it took effect on January 1st ...

[Ethics and medical research: principles, guidelines, and regulations].

The issue of ethics in medical research grew in importance at the end of World War II, after the Nuremberg Code. In this period, some cases in the United States had demonstrated the need for the establishment of rules and procedures in medical research. In this article, the authors discuss some ethical concepts and their philosophical basis, stressing aspects related to research. Ethics in medi...