TY - JOUR
T1 - Setting a minimum standard of care in clinical trials
T2 - Human rights and bioethics as complementary frameworks
AU - Marouf, Fatma E.
AU - Esplin, Bryn S.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - For the past few decades, there has been intense debate in bioethics about the standard of care that should be provided in clinical trials conducted in developing countries. Some interpret the Declaration of Helsinki to mean that control groups should receive the best intervention available worldwide, while others interpret this and other international guidelines to mean the best local standard of care. Questions of justice are particularly relevant where limited resources mean that the local standard of care is no care at all. Introducing human rights law into this complex and longstanding debate adds a new and important perspective. Through non-derogable rights, including the core obligations of the right to health, human rights law can help set a minimum standard of care.
AB - For the past few decades, there has been intense debate in bioethics about the standard of care that should be provided in clinical trials conducted in developing countries. Some interpret the Declaration of Helsinki to mean that control groups should receive the best intervention available worldwide, while others interpret this and other international guidelines to mean the best local standard of care. Questions of justice are particularly relevant where limited resources mean that the local standard of care is no care at all. Introducing human rights law into this complex and longstanding debate adds a new and important perspective. Through non-derogable rights, including the core obligations of the right to health, human rights law can help set a minimum standard of care.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84930897495&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2307/healhumarigh.17.1.31
DO - 10.2307/healhumarigh.17.1.31
M3 - Article
C2 - 26204581
AN - SCOPUS:84930897495
SN - 1079-0969
VL - 17
SP - 31
EP - 42
JO - Health and Human Rights
JF - Health and Human Rights
IS - 1
ER -