HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: National Research Act, Primum Non Nocere, Nuremberg Code
9 Apr 2018
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Ethical issues in health & human subjects research. Ethics in health care: having ethical principles as a set of moral standards to guide behaviour works well in abstract, not always in practice. Issues in pluralistic and complex societies often do not have clear solutions of right and wrong: each person or group has their own perspective on the issue. Bioethics: is (cid:862)the s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) stud(cid:455) of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)t i(cid:374) the area of the life s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es and health care, insofar as this conduct is examined in the light of moral values and principles. Selection of participants must be fair: health research should not include participants because they are, convenient, vulnerable privileged, or for reasons that are unrelated to the purposes of the research. Milgra(cid:373)"s study of (cid:862)o(cid:271)edie(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863): 1961, focused on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience examined justification for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the world war ii,
