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Ethical Aspects of Research in Healthy Volunteers

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Let us begin by making a series of statements with which no reasonable person is likely to disagree:

  1. (1)

    Society derives great benefit from our existing stock of medicines, many of which have been generated by research programmes which include experiments done in healthy volunteers.

  2. (2)

    Present and future research programmes will yield new medicines which will be of great value to society.

  3. (3)

    The development of medicines would be slower, more difficult and more expensive without the participation of healthy volunteers, but it could be done nevertheless.

  4. (4)

    Delay in development of medicines is to the disadvantage of patients.

  5. (5)

    The extra costs of development of drugs are borne by patients, consumers and taxpayers, not by the manufacturer.

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  1. Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit, Boundary House, 91-93 Charterhouse St, London, EC1M 6HR, UK

    Steven J. Warrington (Medical Director)

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  1. May and Baker Pharmaceuticals Rhône-Poulenc Ltd, Dagenham, RM10 7XS, UK

    John O’Grady MD, FRCP (Medical Director, Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology) (Medical Director, Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology)

  2. University of Vienna, Austria

    John O’Grady MD, FRCP (Medical Director, Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology) (Medical Director, Visiting Professor of Clinical Pharmacology)

  3. Clinical Development Unit 1, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI, 49001, USA

    Otto I. Linet MD, PhD (Director) (Director)

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Warrington, S.J. (1990). Ethical Aspects of Research in Healthy Volunteers. In: O’Grady, J., Linet, O.I. (eds) Early Phase Drug Evaluation in Man. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10705-6_12

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