On the Alleged Right to Participate in High-Risk Research

摘要: Reigning regulatory frameworks for biomedical research impose on researchers and ethics committees an obligation to protect participants from risks that are unnecessary, disproportionate potential benefits, non-minimized. Where the has no produce results of direct benefit subjects unable give consent, these requirements strengthened by additional condition, should not exceed a certain minimal threshold. In this article, I address question whether there be limits permissible in non-therapeutic involving competent healthy subjects. Some commentators argue informed individuals have right participate even extremely risky never reject studies because they too dangerous. To use David Shaw's expression, volunteers 'a high-risk research'. idea is ill-founded, as it does take into account social mission complex collaborative nature practice well inequity power between Imposition justified need enterprise weaker party, namely Also, suggest best way set boundaries leave judgment risk acceptability committees.