The Past, Present, and Future of Human Experimentation: Research Ethics after Covid-19

December 8, 2021 -
9:00am to 10:00am

Panelists:

Andreas Frewer
Professor of Ethics in Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen – Nürenberg, Germany

Otmar Kloiber
Secretary General of the World Medical Association, Ferney-Voltaire, France

Ulf Schmidt
Professor of Modern History, University of Hamburg, Germany

Dominique Sprumont
Professor of Health Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Abstract: The rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines represents an unprecedented scientific and human achievement—one in which thousands of people put themselves on the research frontlines as experimental subjects. This panel will examine the historical, philosophical, and legal backdrop to contemporary human experimentation, from the horrors of the Second World War to the Declaration of Helsinki. Are mainstream research ethics today up to the challenge of protecting human beings in the face of new biomedical innovations? How has private industry affected research standards and priorities? What impacts has the current regime had on countries from the global South?

This Brocher Meetup is especially well-timed in advance of the publication of For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics by Alex John London, PhD, Center faculty member and Director of CMU’s Center for Ethics and Policy.

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Sponsored by the Brocher Foundation

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