Advocates call for strict guidelines: Report weighs benefits of testing pesticides on humans

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The National Research Council reported that testing pesticides on humans might be acceptable in scientifically necessary studies and under strict guidelines. The 'International Human Dosing Studies for EPA Regulatory Purposes: Scientific and Ethical Issues' calls Environmental Protection Agency to develop stringent standards for studies that deliberately expose people to toxins.

United States, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Services information, Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing, Pesticides & Other Ag Chemicals, Agricultural chemicals, not elsewhere classified, Pesticide Preparations, Predator Control Products, Predator Poisons, Natl Research Council, Services, Toxins, Pesticides, National Research Council

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Professional-patient relationships and informed consent

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The practical issues of competence to consent, adequate information, and voluntaries are reviewed and examples are given of the ways in which the theoretical perspectives might inform about the practice in such areas. Further, a survey is conducted in four ethical perspectives such as autonomy, justice, virtue ethics and the ethic of care.

United Kingdom, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Informed consent (Medical law), Informed consent, Medical ethics

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