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The Use of Human Beings in Research - With Special Reference to Clinical Trials (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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The Use of Human Beings in Research - With Special Reference to Clinical Trials (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 28
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This volume, which has developed from the Fourteenth Trans
Disciplinary Symposium on Philosophy and Medicine, September 5-8,
1982, at Tel Aviv University, Israel, contains the contributions of
a group of distinguished scholars who together examine the ethical
issues raised by the advance of biomedical science and technology.
We are, of course, still at the beginning of a revolution in our
understanding of human biology; scientific medicine and clinical
research are scarcely one hundred years old. Both the sciences and
the technology of medicine until ten or fifteen years ago had the
feeling of the 19th century about them; we sense that they belonged
to an older time; that era is ending. The next twenty-five to fifty
years of investigative work belong to neurobiology, genetics, and
reproductive biology. The technologies of information processing
and imaging will make diagnosis and treatment almost
incomprehensible by my generation of physicians. Our science and
technology will become so powerful that we shall require all of the
art and wisdom we can muster to be sure that they remain dedicated,
as Francis Bacon hoped four centuries ago, "to the uses of life."
It is well that, as philosophers and physicians, we grapple with
the issues now when they are relatively simple, and while the pace
of change is relatively slow. We require a strategy for the future;
that strategy must be worked out by scientists, philosophers,
physicians, lawyers, theologians, and, I should like to add,
artists and poets."
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