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Pappworth's Guinea Pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

Carl Elliott
Carl Elliott
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Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, N504 Boynton, 410 Church St SE, Minneapolis MN 55455-0346USA E-mail: ellio0232@umn.edu
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Abstract

M.H. Pappworth's 1967 book, Human guinea pigs, was a major catalyst for change in the ethics and regulation of human research in the 1970s. Many of Pappworth's ethical concerns about the threats posed to human subjects are still valid today, yet the source of those threats has shifted from universities to industry sponsors.

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Healthy VolunteersHistory of MedicineHuman Subjects ResearchMedical EthicsPhase I Clinical TrialsResearch Ethics

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BioSocieties , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 147 - 149
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Copyright © London School of Economics and Political Science 2008

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