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Post-Trial Access: Historical Analysis Considering the Experience of COVID-19 Pandemic
The ethical obligation to ensure clinical trial participants “post-trial access” to an intervention proven effective in the trial emerged from the controversy at the end of the 1990s on clinical trials to over...
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Introduction to Ethical Innovation for Global Health: Pandemic, Democracy, and Ethics in Research
This volume captures the recent evolution of ethics in research involving humans with the experience of COVID-19 pandemic and provides future directions to achieve alternative drug development strategies for e...
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Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials: Historical Analysis Including Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The ethical justifiability of “placebo-controlled trials in the presence of proven intervention” is an issue that hinges on the principle of justice in bioethics. Since the onset of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in th...
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Our “WMA Declaration of Helsinki”: Opinions and Proposals from Patient and Public for Research Ethics
The Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) was first issued in 1964 by the World Medical Association (WMA), addressed to physicians, and was amended nine times with the latest version being adopted in 2013. While it ha...
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Therapeutic Misconception as the Basis for Vaccine Nationalism of Japan: A Historical Reflection and Perspectives for Global Public Health
Japan’s democratic Constitution was legislated under the guidance of the occupying authorities immediately after Japan’s defeat in World War II. Among the authorities, the political influence of the United Sta...