Biomedical experimentation on the mentally handicapped: ethical and legal dilemmas.
The responses of various national legislations to experiments carried out on persons mentally incapable of consenting to experimentation reveal the extent of the ethical dilemmas as regards experimentation on the mentally handicapped. Future decisions will have to be governed by extremely careful guidelines.
Baudouin
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JL
Faculty of Law, University of Montreal.
D026683:Advisory Committees; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D028663:Ethical Theory; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D038622:Internationality; D001523:Mental Disorders; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D018579:Patient Selection; D035842:Research Subjects; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012935:Social Justice; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation; D014481:United States