On the Alleged Right to Participate in High-Risk Research.
Reigning regulatory frameworks for biomedical research impose on researchers and research ethics committees an obligation to protect research participants from risks that are unnecessary, disproportionate to potential research benefits, and non-minimized. Where the research has no potential to produ...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 29; no. 7; pp. 451 - 462 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2015
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