Beyond Helsinki: a vision for global health ethics.

摘要: The fifth revision of the 1964 Declaration Helsinki, published in October 2000, sets out international standards for conducting medical research with human subjects.1 Revisions this or any other ethics code are unlikely to make more ethical throughout world, however, without some means strengthening capacity promote and implement such standards. Strengthened is needed both developed developing countries, though need particularly acute countries. A recent Washington Post investigation into countries revealed “a booming, poorly regulated testing system that dominated by private interests far too often betrays its promises patients consumers.”2 Research was a flash point Helsinki because declaration retains requirement new treatments should be tested against “best current” treatment. Critics argue standard does not allow low cost, sustainable treatments, as aspirin coronary artery disease, which might yield substantial health improvements but …