Humans, Not Guinea Pigs. / Avery Hurt.
by Hurt, Avery; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 7Human Relations. Publisher: Hurt/Avery, 2002ISSN: 1522-3248;.Subject(s): Clinical trials | Drugs -- Testing | Human experimentation in medicine | Medical ethicsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "So, back to that old ethical dilemma: Saving untold millions of people from the horrors of smallpox required risking the lives of healthy volunteers. Did Jenner's volunteers understand the risk? Perhaps. Was it worth it? It certainly seems so now [2002]. But these questions come up again and again, every day, in academic medical centers. And they aren't any easier to answer now than they were 200 years ago. (NEW PHYSICIAN) This article examines the risks of the clinical trial system and reveals that the ethical dilemma researchers face is not a new one.
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Originally Published: Humans, Not Guinea Pigs, April 2002; pp. 12+.
"So, back to that old ethical dilemma: Saving untold millions of people from the horrors of smallpox required risking the lives of healthy volunteers. Did Jenner's volunteers understand the risk? Perhaps. Was it worth it? It certainly seems so now [2002]. But these questions come up again and again, every day, in academic medical centers. And they aren't any easier to answer now than they were 200 years ago. (NEW PHYSICIAN) This article examines the risks of the clinical trial system and reveals that the ethical dilemma researchers face is not a new one.
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