Research ethics and the development of medical biotechnology.
Commercial funding is of most importance for the development of new biomedical technologies such as xenotransplantation. The dependence of such funding may, however, carry certain risks from an ethical point of view. In this article some of these risks are exemplified and it is argued that the adherence to basic research ethical norms are of vital importance for the field of xenotransplantation to develop properly.
Persson
Anders
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Department of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden. andpe@tema.liu.se
D000818:Animals; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous