Ethical Research: The Declaration of Helsinki, and the Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation, Schmidt Ulf, Frewer Andreas, Sprumont Dominique

Ethical Research brings together the work of leading experts from the fields of bioethics, health and medical law, the medical humanities, biomedicine, the medical sciences, philosophy, and history. Together, they focus on the centrality of the Declaration of Helsinki to the protection of human
subjects involved in experimentation in an increasingly complex industry and in the government-funded global research environment. The volumes historical and contemporary perspectives on human research address a series of fundamental questions: Is our current human protection regime adequately
equipped to deal with new ethical challenges resulting from advances in high-tech biomedical science? How important has the Declaration been in non-Western regions, for example in Eastern Europe, Africa, China, and South America? Why has the bureaucratization of regulation led to calls to pay
greater attention to professional responsibility? Ethical Research offers insight into the way in which philosophy, politics, economics, law, science, culture, and society have shaped, and continue to shape, the ideas and practices of human research.