War crimes and medical science

Lee, Jennifer

doi:10.1136/bmj.313.7070.1413

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“…Ethics committees, established for the supervision of international treaties such as the Declaration of Helsinki [8], could be overhauled in terms of surveillance measures to allow a stricter monitoring of patients participating in clinical trials. For instance, accessibility to ethics committees could be useful for subjects in trials, who would be interviewed and asked to answer questionnaires adapted to their academic training; aiming to explore their level of understanding about the study they are involved in and to assess their actual perception.…”

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Violation of ethical principles in clinical research. Influences and possible solutions for Latin America

Moreno

Arteaga

2012

BMC Med Ethics

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BackgroundEven though we are now well into the 21st century and notwithstanding all the abuse to individuals involved in clinical studies that has been documented throughout History, fundamental ethical principles continue to be violated in one way or another.DiscussionHere are some of the main factors that contribute to the abuse of subjects participating in clinical trials: paternalism, improper use of informed consent, lack of strict ethical supervision, pressure exerted by health institutions to increase the production of scientific material, and the absence of legislation regarding ethics in terms of health care and research. Are researchers ready to respect fundamental ethical principles in light of the ample window of information provided by individual genomes, while defending the rights of the subjects participating in clinical studies as a major priority?SummaryAs one of the possible solutions to this problem, education regarding fundamental ethical principles is suggested for participants in research studies as an initial method of cognitive training in ethics, together with the promotion of ethical behavior in order to encourage the adoption of reasonable policies in the field of values, attitudes and behavior.

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Violation of ethical principles in clinical research. Influences and possible solutions for Latin America

Moreno

Arteaga

2012

BMC Med Ethics

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“…5 Sixty years after the end of the conflict that led to such atrocities, the author of this book shows us that history has many messages that we can still debate with profit.…”

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Biopsychosocial medicine: an integrated approach to understanding illness

Tattersall

2005

Clinical Medicine

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“…An issue of the British Medical Journal (1996) was devoted to this subject, and made clear that the medical profession gave a great deal of support to Hitler's regime; rather than being forced to act, many doctors embraced the Nazi project with enthusiasm. A leader in the same issue warns that the atrocities in Nazi Germany were not unique to the place or time, and that they could happen in our times (Leaning, 1996). To prevent them happening again, psychiatrists need to be aware of this dark episode in their history, and to examine critically their present-day attitudes to their patients.…”

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Relevance of the history of psychiatry to practising clinicians

Beveridge¹

1999

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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Do busy psychiatrists need to pay any attention to the history of their discipline? Surely clinicians should concentrate on keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in their field. Medical history may provide amusing anecdotes about practice in the past, but can it inform modern treatment? Such a response, although familiar, seems rather strange, coming from psychiatrists, who, after all, spend their clinical day, taking ‘histories'. By doing so, they seek to understand their patients' problems in the context of their life history. They try to make sense of the present by reference to the past, whether it be events in the patient's childhood, previous conflicts or the individual's genetic inheritance. Given such a perspective, it seems reasonable that psychiatrists might also take an interest in the history of their profession. By attending to the history of its development, its past disputes and its intellectual inheritance, the psychiatrist can reach a deeper understanding of the current state of psychiatry.

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War crimes and medical science

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

Violation of ethical principles in clinical research. Influences and possible solutions for Latin America

Violation of ethical principles in clinical research. Influences and possible solutions for Latin America

Biopsychosocial medicine: an integrated approach to understanding illness

Relevance of the history of psychiatry to practising clinicians

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