ON BEING A HUMAN SUBJECT: INTEREST AND OBLIGATION IN THE EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT OF INCURABLE DISEASE.

The article discusses the medical and ethical aspects of becoming a human subject of experimental clinical treatments of chronic incurable diseases like AIDS. It says that many patients with these conditions volunteer themselves to become test subjects of clinical trials due to their belief that the...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Forum Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 213 - 231
Autor principal: Feenberg, Andrew
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Spring1992
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