Medical research and ethics - Revisited
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Child Health - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Ethics in the medical research is known since many years; however, there have been new developments in this area recently. A phenomenal improvement in the health-care system, leading to increased life expectancy, and thereby, newer lifestyle and other health-related diseases has opened avenues for newer drugs and health-care technology. However, these have to be tried and tested in the context of the disease epidemiology, health-care delivery and of course, medical ethics. Monitoring and evaluation of the treatment regimes of well documented effective medicines is also required. This is the core of medical research. With the ever increasing concept of evidence-based medical system, and thereby, a rapid rise in the number of clinical trials; the role of medical ethics is potentially increasing to keep the patients’ interest in mind. The physicians have to consider the health and positive outcome for the patients. This gives rise to conflicting roles and duties; however, physicians’ role and patient commitment must supersede the role of researcher in such cases. The ethical principles, i.e. autonomy, beneficence, and justice apply not only to the physician but also to the medical researcher as well. To monitor the interests of the patients, the ethical review committee sees to it that the clinical trials are conducted with the correct “ethical” approach, giving due consideration to the informed consent process. Refining the regulations and guidelines, especially for individual studies is the core mechanism to strengthen the international medical ethics scenario. This has increasing importance in view of increasing funded research, research involving children, women and prisoners, research related to neurosciences, newer vaccines, organ and tissue transplant, and stem cell transplantation.
Authors and Affiliations
P Thakkar, K S Shringarpure, S Gupte, A Agrawal
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