rticle from the Medical Post, “Lab rats receive more ethical treatment than human subjects when it comes to being part of medical research” (1). This is of serious concern to many doctors, lawyers, and ethicists that feel that humans also deserve ethical treatment. There are very few standards that researchers working with humans need to meet. The article from the Medical Post states, “There are no such review or education programs for research in which human subjects are used” (1). There are many councils that protect animal rights in experiments and ensure their safety in research, but nothing of the sort exists for human research. Facilities that perform unethical treatment to animals are harshly punished where as unethical treatment to humans in experiments is rarely even looked into. According to the article from the Medical Post, “If a research facility is found to be negligent in the way it treats animals, or doesn’t meet the standard, research money can be withdrawn. There is no such penalty in place for centers partaking in human research” (2). Researchers have free rein of their patients with little supervision or laws to prevent unethical treatment. In order to insure that humans are being treated ethically in experiments, more laws on ethics need to be created. Until there are more laws with strict enforcement of them, unethical human research will still continue. Even the idea of a board that would review the experiments in which humans were used would help to make sure they were preformed ethically.Experiments that use humans as subjects have advanced, and will continue to advance the field of medicine and help to find cures for diseases. They are an essential part of medicine. According to the article in Government Account Office Report, Clinical trials generate the evidence base for decision-making in all areas of medicine, and they can be especially important for pat...
