The growing globalisation of medical research and the application of new biotechnologies in morally contested areas has forced a revision of international ethical guidelines.
The approach adopted is comparative and includes an evaluation of human rights and UK and US law on embryonic stem cell research, the HIV/Aids trials in the developing world, the Alder Hey enquiry and the human radiation and nerve gas experiments on human subjects in the US and the UK. This is the first book to analyse some of the major issues in biomedical research today from an international, comparative human rights perspective.Table of contents : From Bioethics to Human Rights in Biomedicine; Human Rights and Universal Principles; Non-Therapeutic Research: Domestic Remedies and Convention Rights; Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Human dignity and the Right to Life; The Rights of the Dead: Research on Human Tissue and Body Parts After Bristol and Alder Hey; Research in Developing Countries: New Ethics and New Threats to Human Rights.
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Controversy about medical research is rarely out of the news. This book covers the law and ethics touching on a broad range of different kinds of research, from embryo research to research of the dead, and offers a comparative and multinational insight into the regulation of medical and scientific advances. Health professionals, lawyers, ethicists and indeed, research subjects will learn a great deal from this work. Professor Margaret Brazier, University of Manchester.
This book by a leading British health care lawyer and philosopher provides the first sustained and in-depth analysis of the impact of the Council of Europes Convention on Human Rights Biomedicine (CHRB) on research ethics...In all three parts the analysis is wide ranging and incisive, and the author manages to draw on both her legal and philosophical competence. I personally disagree with the author on a number of points, especially whether the human rights framework introduced by the CHRB is really more determinate than the previous principles framework in the Helsinki Declaration, but these are minor quibbles. In summary this is an excellent book that should find its place on the shelves of any European academic seriously interested in biomedical research ethics and law. Journal of Medical Ethics, September 2005
This meticulous book, with a copious bibliography and references, provides much concrete detail (including a table of relevant cases from 1788 to the present) that will illuminate ongoing discussion of medical ethics.
British Medical Journal, 30 July 2005. By Berna Arda, Professor of Medical Ethics
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