Ethical Issues Caused by Cultural Differences in Clinical Studies of Chinese Medicine
10.11842/wst.2013.04.016
- VernacularTitle:中医药临床研究中传统文化差异所引起的伦理学问题
- Author:
Zhaohui LIANG
;
Lingfeng ZENG
;
Jianke PAN
;
Jun LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Chinese medicine;
cultural differences;
bioethics;
human-involved study
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(4):702-707
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Issues related to bioethics research often involve four basic principles , which are the value and integri-ty of the research, respect for human being, risk to benefit ratio, and the justice in subject selection. These prin-ciples contribute to the basis of bioethics for human-involved studies and they are capable of being applied to other relevant fields including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) researches. The World Health Orga-nization (WHO) guidelines related to CAM studies clarify that the consideration should be taken for the human rights based on different value systems caused by social, cultural and historical problems, and the ethical prob-lem involved in CAM clinical studies should be properly handled in the further studies. Based on the four prin-ciples and Chinese traditional culture, the author attempted to discuss controversial bioethical issues such as the understanding and setting of informed consent, risk and benefit in western culture bioethics in order to analyze possible issues in the ethical review of Chinese medicine clinical research. We hoped that these considerations can provide references to the bioethical understanding of Chinese medicine clinical studies and ethical review on Chinese medicine practice .
