Legal and Ethical Aspects of Psychiatric Research
Abstract
The psychiatric investigator may face dilemmas arising from the ethical obligation to obtain a patient's "fully informed" consent for the use of an experimental drug, a placebo, or a form of therapy that may produce unwanted side effects. Research may also be complicated by the obligation to respect the confidentiality of physician-patient communications. Observing that there are no easy answers to the questions he raises, the author concludes that human responsibility is one of the most important elements in psychiatric research.
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