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J Med Ethics doi:10.1136/jme.2010.040345
  • Response

The moral primacy of the human being: a reply to Parker

  1. Stefan Eriksson2
  1. 1Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE), Department of LIME, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  2. 2Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics (CRB), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gert Helgesson, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE), Department of Learning, Informatics, Management, and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; gert.helgesson{at}ki.se
  • Received 20 September 2010
  • Accepted 25 September 2010
  • Published Online First 17 November 2010

Abstract

In a previous paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics, the authors argued that the research ethical principle stating that the individual shall have priority over science, found in many guidelines, is utterly unclear and because of this should be explicated or otherwise deleted. In a recent commentary, Parker argued that this leaves us defending a position that would allow totalitarian regimes to pursue glory at the expense of its citizens. The present response addresses this and similar accusations.

Footnotes

  • Funding The original paper criticised by Parker was part of a project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

  • Competing interests None.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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