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...first is that the risk to the patient be negligible and that it not impede his progress if he is under treatment for an ailment. If that progress can be accelerated by another means, then the experimenter should not try a dubious treatment. Second, the subject must provide informed consent to participate in any experiment...
...certain fatty acid to be put in their baby foods. The study--conducted at the University of Texas--involved depriving mostly black infants of linoleic acid, a component of milk necessary for growth and development. Because the black babies were apparently all orphaned and wards of the state, no consent was awarded in the babies' interests. The few white infants, children of interns, served as the "controls" receiving the normal diet of the essential nutrient...
...only presented in capsulated from some of the issue of contemporary medical ethics. Although our biases in the following pages will inevitably be transparent, we attempt only to enlighten our readers to the issues. For clearly all of society must now contend with these problems. We cannot give tacit consent to physicians to behave in manners subject only to the judgment of their own consciences. For their profession is not a private affair: they must be subject to the evaluation of their individual clientele and responsible to the society at large. Historically, sanction by silence has inveitably led to exploitation...
Last October, Mr. L. agreed to participate in the project, and his parents signed the consent papers. Mr. L. was then transferred to Lafayette Clinic, where electrodes were implanted in his brain to determine the area from which the violence emanated...
...involuntarily hospitalized patient truly able to give "voluntary consent" to experimental procedures...