Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Beginning the Ethics

One of the hardest parts of this topic is finding the history, because the history of the topic spans throughout history. Humans have been, essentially, preforming clinical trials on each other for centuries. Anything that consists of finding a new treatment for humans, involves finding out that it actually worked for humans one way or another. Really the only development is how the process has changed and grown in ethical standards, but yet personal ethics were always there, in one way or another, for the testers.

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  1. I can definitely see this topic being difficult to research in the history department... after all, by definition, even the earliest, most primitive humans could have performed a type of "clincal trial" (granted, the trials would clearly be far less advanced).

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