Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges

1 January 1999

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Vol. 8 (4) , 501-513
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963180199004120

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

BELMONT REPORT
BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH
GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION