Moving from Compliance to Conscience: Why We Can and Should Improve on the Ethics of Clinical Research

Arch Intern Med. 61(7):925-928, 2001, DOI: 10.1001/archinte.161.7.925

Posted: 4 Sep 2014

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Jeffrey P. Kahn

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Anna C. Mastroianni

University of Washington - School of Law; University of Washington, Dept. of Health Services, School of Public Health; University of Washington, Dept. of Pediatrics and Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine

Date Written: April 9, 2001

Abstract

The ethics of clinical research are long-standing; researchers confronted ethical issues long before the implementation of federal oversight and regulations1 and continue to be challenged by the sometimes fuzzy distinctions between ethically acceptable and ethically unacceptable research. New technologies (gene therapy, stem cell transplants, and bioartificial organs, to name a few) raise new ethical issues, but at the same time, so many of the issues that researchers must deal with are recurring. This is a time not only of great opportunity and promise for the pursuit of biomedical research, but also of great responsibility.

Keywords: clinical research, ethics, new technology, federal regulations

Suggested Citation

Kahn, Jeffrey P. and Mastroianni, Anna C., Moving from Compliance to Conscience: Why We Can and Should Improve on the Ethics of Clinical Research (April 9, 2001). Arch Intern Med. 61(7):925-928, 2001, DOI: 10.1001/archinte.161.7.925, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2490703

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