Exam 2: Research Ethics and Informed Consent

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Paul Ramsey believes that it may be morally legitimate to use captive populations of children in research studies.

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Peter Singer believes that speciesism is essential to right conduct.

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Tom Regan argues that animals have a form of autonomy since they have preferences.

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The requirement that a person must consent to be in a medical trial can be satisfied by her simply agreeing to be in a medical trial.

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Educated and wealthy persons are equally as likely to become research subjects as the uneducated and poor.

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Carl Cohen believes that animals are the sort of beings that can possess rights and, because of that, we cannot morally sacrifice their interests for the welfare of others.

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The notion of informed consent is a recognition of individual autonomy.

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Researchers at the Willowbrook State School in New York deliberately infected children with hepatitis during the course of their experiments.

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The related but distinct aims of medical research and therapy are a source of conflict in human experimentation.

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The majority of medical research projects offer clear benefits to those who consent to be subjects in them.

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The aim of Abigail Alliance was to change FDA policies to give terminally ill patients easier access to investigational drugs that might benefit them.

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Hans Jonas believes that it is inherently wrong to force an individual to sacrifice him/herself to a social goal.

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According to Peter Singer, there never has been and never could be a single experiment that saved thousands of lives.

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The majority of Phase III clinical trials sponsored by drug companies are carried out in the United States.

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Double-blind test designs are intended to rule out the influence of the expectations of researchers and patients.

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