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It's one thing to rationalize "live donor transplants", quite another to make excuses for torture.

• dalke 11y ago
  More specifically, medical ethics work under the Declaration of Helsinki, and not "first, do no harm". For example, the Declaration says "In medical practice and in medical research, most interventions involve risks and burdens." That is not the same as "do no harm." Also, "While the primary purpose of medical research is to generate new knowledge, this goal can never take precedence over the rights and interests of individual research subjects." and "Appropriate compensation and treatment for subjects who are harmed as a result of participating in research must be ensured." and "No national, ethical, legal or regulatory requirement should be allowed to reduce or eliminate any of the protections for human subjects set forth in this declaration." On the specific topic of the medical ethics of live donor transplants, see http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/4/1089.full http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/4/1089.full .
  • Semiapies 11y ago
    The Declaration of Helsinki has to do with medical research ethics specifically, not the broad field of medical ethics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki
    • dalke 11y ago
      Thanks for the correction.