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Medical experimentation: a behavioural science perspective *
Author(s) -
Parker Cordon
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1985.tb113592.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , engineering ethics , medical science , process (computing) , medical profession , behavioural sciences , psychology , management science , sociology , medicine , medical education , computer science , engineering , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , operating system
Recent advances in medical experimentation have evoked wide‐ranging responses from the medical profession and the wider community. This article argues against the medical profession assessing experimentation issues by reference to a narrow utilitarian model and promotes, by way of a behavioural science perspective, an emphasis on process issues.