Re: Re: Ethics in research

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Hi Vijay,I was shocked to read about these types of trials. Indeed, there is an urgent need to educate trialists in our countries to the peril of unethical research. Best,

/ArinOn Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Vijay <drvijaythawani@...> wrote:

 

Hi Arin,

Yes, the examples quoted by you do reveal what you say.

There is one more side to it - developed economy pharma companies getting the medicine trials done in economically poorer countries. Even India has been at receiving end in such cases because of poorer controls. Remember the intrauterine Quinacrine (the banned antimalarial) trial for chemical cauterization leading to fibrosis of uterine endometrium leading to sterility, in four southern States of India?

Goes without saying that there have been many such cladestine trials in poorer economies, where proper checks and balances are not practiced and medical ethics are ignored.

Vijay

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> Dear Vijay,

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> Thanks for starting a great series on ethics. Good to read and very

> informative.

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> > It has been accused that lesser developed economies have poor research

> > ethics record, probably because these countries have more pressing needs

> > otherwise.

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> > If a country has poor human rights record, the research ethics can not be

> > expected to be one up in such countries.

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> > Vijay

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> I'd like to draw your attention to the Tuskegee trial and Zimbardo's prison

> experiment in San Franscisco. Tuskegee study (also known as Tuskegree

> Syphilis Experiment) was a longitudinal study where 399 African American

> (Blacks) with syphilis were recruited to study the outcomes or natural

> progression of untreated disease (see

> http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm )

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> In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, a professor at Stanford University conducted an

> experiment to see the effects of psychology of imprisonment at Stanford

> University. Check the website here: http://www.prisonexp.org/

> Zimbardo recently gave a lecture in the TED talks on this experiment (search

> Google: Ted talks philip zimbardo stanford experiment)

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> These are just a couple of examples to suggest that it's not just the lesser

> developed economies but the more prosperous countries that violate normative

> ethics.

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> /Arin Basu

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