Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 390 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Research and the Mere-Means Line
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The idea
Medical research runs on a governed tension: knowledge needs subjects, and subjects are persons — never material; consent and independent review hold the line.
In practice
The protocols exist because the line was crossed; modern review boards are institutions built out of remembered wrongs, case by case.
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