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Good medical research — the view of the CDBI/Council of Europe

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Medical research aims to achieve a better scientific understanding of health and disease. It is firstly undertaken for the improvement of medical care in general, not excluding a potential direct benefit for participants undergoing such research. There is a traditional conflict between the fundamental rights and the dignity of those participating individuals and the interests of science, researchers and even the society. The Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe is a new legally binding instrument for the solution of these conflicts.

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  1. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Rome, 4.XI.1950), European Treaty Series No. 005, Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1950.

  2. Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the Application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo, 4.IV. 1997), European Treaty Series No. 164, Council of Europe, Strasbourg 1997.

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  1. Permanent Working Group of German Ethics Committees and Scientific Editor of The “Deutsches Ärzteblatt”, Ottostraße 12, D-50859, Köln, Germany

    Elmar Doppelfeld (Chairman)

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Doppelfeld, E. Good medical research — the view of the CDBI/Council of Europe. SCI ENG ETHICS 8, 283–286 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-002-0045-y

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