Question 65 · LEK · Conventions and declarations
According to the Declaration of Helsinki (Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects) the primary purpose of medical research is to generate new knowledge. Such medical research:
- A. can never take precedence over the rights and interests of individual research subjects.
- B. can, in exceptional clinical cases, take precedence over the exclusive interests of individual research subjects.
- C. can limit rights of individual research subjects only in the name of their interests.
- D. can take precedence over individual research subjects' rights upon their consent.
- E. can take precedence over individual research subjects' interests only upon the consent of the bioethical committee allowing the medical experiment to be carried out.
Hint
The Declaration sets a firm priority between the goal of new knowledge and the individual participant — with no exceptions.
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