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Volume 340:243 January 21, 1999 Number 3
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The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An international perspective

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By Baruch A. Brody. 386 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-509007-1.

Worldwide fears arising from an outbreak of Ebola virus in Africa, the controversy generated in the genetics community resulting from the eugenics law in China, and the turmoil on the editorial pages of the Journal provoked by AIDS research in third-world countries (Marcia Angell. "The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World." 1997;337:847-9.) are reminders of international issues related to biomedical research. Similarly, multinational pharmaceutical corporations have become active participants in discussions once limited to researchers, ethicists, and regulatory agencies.

The Ethics of Biomedical Research is 1 of 11 recent books by renowned scholars of bioethics that have been . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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