In Memory of Ethics: A Dissection of Ethical and Social Issues in Pakistani Professional Healthcare Practice

Unethical Clinical Trials and the Third-World Countries

Author(s): Fatima Tahir and Walifa Waqar *

Pp: 126-141 (16)

DOI: 10.2174/9789815223859124010017

* (Excluding Mailing and Handling)

Abstract

Although human experimentation has greatly increased our understanding of the human body and diseases, there are still occasions when limits of morality are crossed during clinical trials. Illiteracy, poverty, corrupt health practitioners, and lack of law enforcement in developing countries have led to an increase in the exploitation of people as guinea pigs for trial purposes. These unethical clinical trials in Third World countries have caused an inferiority complex and a general mistrust in the healthcare system. It is the duty of the physician and scientists involved in medical research to protect the life, health, and integrity of research subjects, for which strict regulations are a necessity.


Keywords: Bioethical principles, Causative factor, Effects, Healthcare sector, Institutional review board, Mortality rates, Prevalence, Suggestions, Third-world countries, Third world countries, The belmont report, The declaration of helsinki, The nuremberg code, Unethical clinical trials.

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