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Guinea pigs or good citizens?

Ethical issues in human participant research

Sarah Chan, deputy director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation, discusses the dilemmas that society must confront when considering the ethical standards governing human participant research

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Biomedical research promises great advances in our ability to improve human welfare through treating or curing illness and disease. Experiments involving human participants play an important role in the development of new treatments, as well as in basic science. Yet research on humans remains a contentious issue, fraught with ethical questions and concerns.

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