Chapter 16: On Witnessing Global Ethics: A Case of International Health Research Involving Human Subjects
Power and Principle in the Market Place (Law, Ethics and Economics), Edited by Jacob Dahl Rendtorff, Roskilde University, Denmark, 2010
10 Pages Posted: 21 Mar 2014
Date Written: September 23, 2009
Abstract
Ethical issues arise when powerful institutions support and promote particular perspectives, and moreover work to pass these perspectives on to larger, even global, audiences. In this case of international health research involving human subjects, issues of standard of care, global inequality, and the representation of vulnerable populations as “perfect research subjects” are explored and discussed in the context of a program, attended by the author, on International Health Research Involving Human Subjects.
Keywords: Bioethics, International health research involving human subjects, Applied ethics, Pedagogy, Standard of Care, least advantaged members of society, distributive justice, global inequality, global basic structure
JEL Classification: B22, H23, I12, I31, J18, O19
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