TY - JOUR
T1 - The Ethics of Human Experimentation in Psychiatry
T2 - Toward a More Informed Consensus
AU - Howell, Timothy
AU - Sack, Robert L.
PY - 1981/5
Y1 - 1981/5
N2 - In recent years, the expansion in medical research has been accompanied by a growing concern for human rights, and a proliferation of government regulations. These concurrent developments have generated a deepening uneasiness about the future of human experimentation in psychiatry. This troubled state of affairs points out the desirability of a moral consensus that will respect the concerns of those involved. Toward that end, we offer a method for assessing the arguments now crowding the literature and propose a set of paradigms of human experimentation- the scientific, authoritarian, market, fiduciary, collegial, and socialwhich appear to lie behind the clash of perspectives. It is our hope that these paradigms can contribute to a fair and sympathetic examination of the conflicting positions. While this in itself cannot guarantee a moral consensus, it can facilitate a clearer organization and understanding of priorities.
AB - In recent years, the expansion in medical research has been accompanied by a growing concern for human rights, and a proliferation of government regulations. These concurrent developments have generated a deepening uneasiness about the future of human experimentation in psychiatry. This troubled state of affairs points out the desirability of a moral consensus that will respect the concerns of those involved. Toward that end, we offer a method for assessing the arguments now crowding the literature and propose a set of paradigms of human experimentation- the scientific, authoritarian, market, fiduciary, collegial, and socialwhich appear to lie behind the clash of perspectives. It is our hope that these paradigms can contribute to a fair and sympathetic examination of the conflicting positions. While this in itself cannot guarantee a moral consensus, it can facilitate a clearer organization and understanding of priorities.
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U2 - 10.1521/00332747.1981.11024097
DO - 10.1521/00332747.1981.11024097
M3 - Article
C2 - 7220705
AN - SCOPUS:0019515336
SN - 0033-2747
VL - 44
SP - 113
EP - 132
JO - Psychiatry (New York)
JF - Psychiatry (New York)
IS - 2
ER -