Medical Research on Human Subjects

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The issue discussed by Ron, Williams’s ad Dickens is the conditions in which the use of human subjects in medical research justified. Roy and his colleagues believe that the health, life and dignity of persons involved as subjects in medical research must be protected in order for the research to be ethically justifiable.

Roy and his colleagues believe four conditions should be met for a medical research or clinical trial to be ethically justified, the research have to be scientific adequate; the rights of human subjects protected; clinicians obtain informed consent from patients; patients must be informed about randomization.

First, Roy et al. stated that adequate preliminary experimentation must be carried out on animal models before human subjects are used in a clinical trial. Medical researches or clinical trials with human subjects must conform to the principle of scientific method. Medical professionals and investigators involved in these researches must have adequate qualification.

Second, Roy and his colleagues proposed that in clinical trials, human subjects are to be pr...

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