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Human Experimentation
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Definition
: The use of humans as investigational subjects.
IM for moral, legal, ethical, sociologic, religious aspect of experiments on humans; coordinate IM with aspect (IM); do not routinely add for research involving human disease, therapy or physiology
See Also
Bioethical Issues
;
Embryo Research
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Ethics, Research
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Fetal Research
;
Helsinki Declaration
;
Research Subjects
Examples
Autoexperimentation
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Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
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Therapeutic Human Experimentation
Other names
Volunteers, Human; Volunteer, Human; Human Volunteer; Experimentation, Human; Human Volunteers; Human Research Subject Protection