Research on Human Subjects: Ethics, Law and Social Policy

by David N. Weisstub

There have been serious controversies in the latter part of the 20th century about the roles and functions of scientific and medical research. In whose interests are medical and biomedical experiments conducted and what are the ethical implications of experimentation on subjects unable to give competent consent? From the decades following the Second World War and calls for the global banning of medical research to the cautious return to the notion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080434347
• ISBN13: 9780080434346
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Pergamon
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 3.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 7.0"