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Can Clinical Research Be Both Ethical and Scientific? A Commentary inspired by Rosser and Marquis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Helen Bequaert Holmes
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Abstract

Problems with clinical research that create conflicts between doctors’ therapeutic and research obligations may be fueled by a rigid view of science as determiner of truth, a heavy reliance on statistics, and certain features of randomized clinical trials. 1 suggest some creative, feminist approaches to such research and explore ways to provide choice for patients and to use values in directing both therapy and science — to enhance the effectiveness of each.

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Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminist Ethics and Medicine , Summer 1989 , pp. 156 - 168
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Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

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