The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation

Download or read book The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation written by Paul Murray McNeill and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author finds that these committees are predominantly influenced by members of research institutions and by the researchers themselves. Yet researchers, and their institutions, stand to gain considerable benefits from the experiments they conduct. Dr McNeill argues that committees of review, as they are presently constituted, cannot be relied on to ensure an equitable balance between the interests of researchers and the interests of the human subjects experimented on. He proposes a radically different rationale and model for committee review.