Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

koja se utvrđuje i dokazuje tek primjenom na posljednjem korisniku lijeka,
tj. samom čovjeku. Unatoč dobronamjernosti većine znanstvenika i stručnjaka
u ovome području, nije nam nepoznata činjenica da je često glavni
faktor štetnosti mnogih dobrih projekata upravo profit, koji beskrupulozno
gazi temeljna načela svih poznatih konvencija o ljudskim pravima, skrivajući
se pod različitim krinkama dobro umreženih poslovnih partnera.
ETHICAL QUESTIONS RELATED TO CLINICAL AND
PHARMACOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS
Bioethics has focused its attention on clinical research from its beginnings,
especially on clinical experiments which involved the participation
of human beings, and as such, it is the science which starts lively
discussions and confrontations of opinions, especially in economically
more developed countries. Systematic ethical thinking concerning clinical
experiments on humans, when decision-making within the ethical commissions
is in question, thanks to exactly established criteria of objectivity,
verification and reproductiveness, can considerably reduce the risk of
abuse. Add to this the ever-growing phenomenon related to the culture of
protection and promotion of human rights. Public discussions, caused by
the events from everyday life, may considerably raise the citizens’ awareness
of their potential influence on the destiny of a great number of people.
Furthermore, thanks to the fact that medicines are constantly losing their
characteristic of “magic formula” for solving all the problems and in this
respect they acquire more realistic value as molecules obtained to start
biochemical dynamisms of live matter, the requirements of experimental
verification to prove its effectiveness, are more and more rigorous, both in
laboratory in vitro and on human beings in vivo. A scientific study of effectiveness
should naturally precede all this – effectiveness which is defined
and proved only by application on the last user of the medicine, i.e. the man
himself. Despite the good intentions of most scientists and experts in this
field, it is not an unknown fact to us that the profit is often the main factor
of harmfulness of good projects, because it unscrupulously tramples on the
basic principles of all known conventions on human rights, hiding behind
different masks of well connected business partners.
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