Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Lumbar Puncture, Syphilis, Chancre

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Marie Savundranayagam

Document Summary

Medical research essential to advancing knowledge and alleviating human suffering. Develops/contributes to generalizable knowledge about human physiology, illness, and injury, and may be combined with medical therapy. Research divided into 2 categories: clinical and nonclinical. Clinical research: combined with medical therapy (includes diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness) in subjects who are ill or affected. Nonclinical research: not directed towards specific illness or the susceptibility of particular individuals to it; instead studies healthy individuals and their general susceptibility or response to various factors. Clinical researches morally okay as the harms of the studies do not exceed the potential good that can come from it (e. g. a cure). Concerns about human research include: inadequate consent, dangerous experiments, abuse, and the role of commercial funding (can create conflicts of interest). The potential subject"s dissent will preclude his or her participation. Government would rather accept the refusal of a non-competent patient than go against his wishes by accident, promoting beneficence and nonmaleficence.