title: Bench to bedside: mapping the moral terrain of clinical research.
abstract: Medical research is widely thought to have a fundamentally therapeutic orientation, in spite of the fact that clinical research is thought to be ethically distinct from medical care. We need an entirely new conception of clinical research ethics - one that looks to science instead of the doctor-patient relationship.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joffe
authors.forename: Franklin G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D032984:Ethics, Research; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics; D018579:Patient Selection; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000941:ethics; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000941:ethics*; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics