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Submitted by jomama on April 25, 2006
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Midwest Research Institute: The Department of Defense's Guinea Pig
23"Everything is permissible"but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"but not everything is constructive. 24Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
The Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:22-23
The Apostle Paul reiterated the same words four chapters earlier to the church of Corinth and referred specifically to the topic of sexual immorality. However, we can take this simple lesson that one can do anything, but not everything is beneficial, and apply it to issues of human experimentation. Paul also speaks truth when he mentions that people should consider the need and good of others rather than satisfy their own selfish needs. These two verses touch on issues of beneficence (duty to do good), and nonmaleficence (duty to do no harm) two of the core tenets of many ethics codes and those that were challenged by the Midwest Research Institute (MRI). In this paper, I will define the potential ethical issues associated with the MRI study, state a position of whether the research was ethical, support my position with data and logic, demonstrate a knowledge of the principles of human experimentation, and demonstrate a knowledge of ethical philosophy by suggesting how this issue would be viewed by one or more major philosophers.
Define the potential ethical issues associated with the MRI study
Potential ethical issues relate to the source of funding for MRI's research, whether or not MRI fully disclosed the drug's potential side effects to volunteers, and whether or not MRI considered any "prior reason to believe that death or disabling injury (should) occur."
According to James Spigarelli, executive vice president of MRI, $40 to $50 million of MRI's $250 million research volume comes from defense-related contracts. MRI has experienced a positive long-standing relationship with the...
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