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Clinical Trials with Vulnerable or Disrespected Subjects

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 125-130
Alvin Novick

Bioethicists have addressed many of the considerations related to clinical trials with oppressed or vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minority group members, the profoundly or terminally ill, prisoners, retarded or otherwise incompetent persons, third world subjects, and the indigent. Generally, these discussions have focused on coercion, informed consent, and distributive justice. The rapid movement toward clinical trials of AIDS-related drugs and vaccines suggests that we ought to reopen some of these earlier discussions.
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