A new group to flag for interested readers. In the past, writes Jennifer Miller and Marie Catherine-Letendre of Bioethics International in Trust and Ethics in Health Care ,
it wasn’t uncommon for established experts to conduct their federally funded studies with disadvantaged people. For example, Dr. W. Paul Havens Jr., a WHO viral disease expert and pioneering hepatitis research scientist, furthered his studies by exposing patients in mental institutions to hepatitis. Similarly, the man who invented the polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk, conducted his flu vaccine clinical trials on Michigan state insane asylum patients in 1942.
The problems continue, they write, dealing with a matter I addressed yesterday in The Monster’s Story , and in response Bioethics International has launched a group called the World Council for Ethical Standards. The website doesn’t provide a link to the group or its ethical standards, but presumably they will.
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