Patient’s rights and ethics of medical research

Introduction

Medical research is important in the advancement of health, therefore, exploring the ethical issues surrounding this practice is much interesting. Roach in her book, Stiff explores the issue of patients’ rights whether they are dead or live. I think the most ethical problem in the field of medical research is the limitations that are being placed on medical practitioners’ ability to perform vital and potential lifesaving experiments. It is important to research this problem since hinders many medical researches that are for the advancement of the human race.

Research on the rights of patients is necessary for solving this problem. Medical research should be allowed to be carried on patients with or without their consent since it is for the greater good. Changes such as carrying authorized medical research on patients or dead bodies with or without their consent should be legalized. People should also come to terms with the practice of carrying out medical research on dead bodies instead of referring to the practice as unethical.

I need to find information concerning a successful medical practice that was performed without the consent of the patient and led to the full recovery of the patient. This information might help change the way people view medical research, I also need to find information on research conducted on a dead body that led to the advancement of medicine. Also, it is important to note that some patients are not in their right state of mind and therefore, they are not in a position to decide what is good for them.

Conclusion

Limitations have been placed on medical practitioners’ thus limiting their ability to perform vital and potential lifesaving experiments. Policies should be adjusted so as to allow authorized medical research to be carried out with or without the consent of the patient. The general public should come to terms with the fact that dead bodies are vital to medical research and research performed on them should not be termed unethical. Information on successful medical research carried out on patients without their consent is needed in order to prove that these researches are for the greater good.