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Ethics and Clinical Research
Abstract
HUMAN experimentation since World War II has created some difficult problems with the increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. Evidence is at hand that many of the patients in the examples to follow never had the risk satisfactorily explained to them, and it seems obvious that further hundreds have not known that they were the subjects of an experiment although grave consequences have been suffered as a direct result of experiments described . . .
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beecher, H. K.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 1966-06-16
- Volume
- 274
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 1354-1360
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W1995350918
- Cited by
- 1,914
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 22.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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