Can unequal be more fair? A response to Andrew Avins

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-182

  Edwards, Sarah J L ^a   Braunholtz, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Human experimentation; RCTs

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RANDOMIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMON GOOD; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SELECTION OF SUBJECTS; THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH;

ENGLAND; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION;

EID: 0034033796     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.26.3.179     Document Type: Note

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