Beneficence, Scientific Autonomy, and Self-Interest: Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Research

Edmund D. Pellegrino

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics · 1992 · 46 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

The ethics of clinical research may be viewed from three different perspectives: the process of acquiring new knowledge, the moral use of the knowledge acquired, and the ethics of the investigator seeking this knowledge.