Research Ethics

[Daniel C.]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is not the first time the FDA
> has had to deal with this emotionally titillating issue. Cancer patients and
> their loved ones have never been able to reconcile with the stance of
> experimental drug administration on patients with no other available
> treatments (and the ethical/business issues there can be the subject of tons
> of PhDs).

 

What good, logical, argument can be made to deny people the right to
knowingly and willfully put something into their body that won't cause
social harm? If someone was dying, and an experiment killed them
first, wouldn't the proper reaction be to respect them /more/ for
giving the rest of humanity a data point?

At first glance I agree with Nathan on this one, but I'm not informed enough to say that this is my final answer.  Can you tell us more about the other side of the argument, Srihari?

-Dan