ATS2637 Study Guide - Final Guide: Infant Mortality, Sex Tourism, Lifesaving
1 Aug 2018
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W8 - ethics of research in developing countries i. Pogge t. - testing our drugs on the poor abroad. Although (cid:449)e are deeply i(cid:373)plicated i(cid:374) the persiste(cid:374)t a(cid:374)d se(cid:448)ere po(cid:448)erty of half of humankind, our pharmaceutical companies are essentially ignoring the specific medi(cid:272)al pro(cid:271)lems fa(cid:272)ed (cid:271)y the glo(cid:271)al poor . Moral complaint: moral objections that point to some particular person or group as one whom the conduct (here: research) in question should not have treated as it did. But not true for infants in placebo groups. Would have died anyway: unjustifiable by consent, volenti non fit iniuria: no injustice is being done to the willing. Counterproductive: surfaxin: the treatment they (placebo group) receive is not essential to the purpose of the trial, which could be conducted with an active-control rather than placebo-control design. > every infant gets the treatment: d-lab was responsive to the demands of morality, it has shifted the venue of its trial to the united states.
