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Protecting Communities in Research: Philosophical and Pragmatic Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

CHARLES WEIJER
Affiliation:
University of Toronto and the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Abstract

The issue of the protection of communities in clinical research first arose 10 years ago in studies conducted in technologically developing countries by scientists from technologically developed nations. The question was, which ethical standards ought to apply, those of the Western investigators or local standards?

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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