d assume that their doctors will still pay close attention to their health. Even in procedures where the experiment is meant to improve the overall health of the patient there are no guarantees, it is still just an experiment. Sherwin believes, “Even in so-called therapeutic research, where subjects have some hope of personal benefit, no assurances can be offered to the patient-subjects as long as the treatment being evaluated is experimental” (160). Patients are often fooled into being part of experiments because they think that they will be cured of their illness. Researchers need to take more responsibility for their patients and make sure that they know when their safety and well being are at risk.A few things could be done to make sure their patients knew of the safety risks and threats to their well beings that the experiments could cause. Sherwin declares, “We need ethical guidelines that will govern patient’s participation in medical research to ensure that patient’s service to this research is not especially dangerous for the individuals involved” (161). Having a set of ethical guidelines would make sure that researchers knew that they must inform their patients of the high risks of the experiments. Sherwin also adds, “We should also try to ensure that the research in question contributes to the overall well-being of patients, not to any further harm for them” (161). If these two things were carried out by researchers, experiments would be run in a much more ethical manner.Researchers need to ensure that their patients have given consent and are informed of what the experiment entails. Consent can be a problem when patients are not informed of the details of the experiment and agree to it without knowing the facts. According to Nelson and Rohricht, “Most public challenges to medical experimenters have centered on the inadequacy of the consent obtained in particular...
