IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION MORALLY RIGHT? WHAT IS THE POSITION OF THE CHURCH?
BRIEFLY DEFINED: Human Experimentation is an experiment or research involving human subjects that are designed either to enhance the professional capabilities of individual physicians or to contribute to the font of knowledge in those sciences that are traditionally considered basic in the m edical context e.g biochemistry, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, epidemiology and cognate behavioural science. TYPES OF HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION: There are two types of Human Experimentation namely Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic Therapeutic experimentation is concerned with the acquisition of generalizable knowledge. Here the subjects are themselves expected to benefit medically from the new drug, vaccine, treatment, or diagnostic procedure being tried. For example, the first patients on a kidney dialysis machine and coronary bypass surgery were therapeutic. These procedures were used on the subjects for their benefit because it promises to be more effective than other availabl...