Year: 1977
Type: article
Abstract: So among the experiments that may be tried on man, those that can only harm are forbidden, those that are innocent are permissible, and those that may do good are obligatory."'These clear precepts established in another century by the French physiologist, Claude Bernard, represent a distillate of most of the ethical principles of modern investigators.Indeed, Bernard's guidelines would be sufficient today were it not for the fact that they apply only to the decisions of the experimenting physician and not to the interaction between that investigator and his human subject.They would be complete had Bernard written: "So among the experiments that may be tried on consenting man ....
Source: PubMed
Author: David G Nathan
Institution: Villanova University
Language: English
Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W913680584