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Ethics of Clinical Trials
Term Paper # 120748
This paper looks at the ethics of placebo-controlled clinical trials.
750 words (approx. 3 pages) |
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MLA | 2008
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Published on: Jan 01, 2008
Paper Summary:
This paper examines whether it is ethical to withhold known beneficial treatments to give patients placebos as controls when testing new drugs.From the Paper:
"Whenever clinical trials are conducted on patients, it is necessary to have some kind of control group with which to compare the treatment drug under study. This always presents an ethical dilemma in medicine because if a treatment or drug is withheld from one group of patients, then their condition may worsen and it is questionable whether or not this is ethical if the treatment drug would be beneficial to such patients. Such a dilemma was brought to light in the testing of a new cancer treatment..."Visitors who viewed this Term Paper also liked these:
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APA Citation:
Ethics of Clinical Trials (2012, April 01). Retrieved May 24, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Ethics-of-Clinical-Trials/120748
MLA Citation:
"Ethics of Clinical Trials" 01 April 2012. Web. 24 May. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Ethics-of-Clinical-Trials/120748>
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