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PROTECTING PARTICIPANTS IN HUMAN STUDIES
Author(s) -
Ladimer Irving
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1970.tb54772.x
Subject(s) - humanity , dignity , human rights , meaning (existential) , cliché , psychology , epistemology , law , philosophy , political science , linguistics
Summary Dr. Roy Ritts has expressed his concept of this responsibility beautifully. It aptly serves to remind us of the self‐control that is the essence of the basic protection I have sought to outline: It is essential that while humanity and science are served, the individual's rights must be protected with vigor and vigilance. If this means that certain experiments cannot be conducted, it is appropriate that they are not…. Occasionally, the means and the end are blurred and may even be indistinguishable. In the clinical experiment with human subjects … the end can never justify means if human rights and dignity are violated. There is special meaning for the scientist in this cliché, for he above others exalts in his freedom … he is first a human, then a scientist. 20