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Selected Works of Charles Weijer
Article
Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (1999)
  • Charles Weijer, University of Toronto
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Abstract

The issue of the protection of communities in clinical research first arose 10 years ago in studies conducted in technologically developing countries by scientists from technologically developed nations. The question was, which ethical standards ought to apply, those of the Western investigators or local standards?

Keywords
  • Community-Institutional Relations,
  • Ethical Relativism,
  • Medical Ethics,
  • Human Experimentation,
  • Moral Obligations,
  • Personal Autonomy,
  • Third-Party Consent
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 1999
Publisher Statement
Dr. Charles Weijer is currently a faculty member at The University of Western Ontario.
Citation Information
Charles Weijer. "Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics Vol. 8 Iss. 4 (1999)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charlesweijer/160/