Between the needy and the greedy: The quest for a just and fair ethics of clinical research

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 500-504

  Garrafa, Volnei ^a   Solbakk, Jan Helge ^b,c   Vidal, Susana ^d,e   Lorenzo, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d Regional Office for Science of UNESCOMontevideo   (Uruguay)

^e Education Programme of Bioethics e Redbioética Unesco   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH SUBJECT;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77958099648     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2009.032656     Document Type: Article

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