Viewing benefit sharing in global health research through the lens of Aristotelian justice

Autor: Bege Dauda, Kris Dierickx
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Medical Ethics
Moral Obligations
Community-Based Participatory Research
Biomedical Research
Health (social science)
Social Issues
GENETIC-RESOURCES
International Cooperation
Social Sciences
ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
Global Health
0603 philosophy
ethics and religion
Through-the-lens metering
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Social Justice
Realm
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Global health
ALTRUISM
030212 general & internal medicine
Justice (ethics)
Sociology
GLOBALIZATION
Set (psychology)
Developing Countries
Law and economics
Ethics
International relations
Social Responsibility
Research ethics
Science & Technology
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Benefit sharing
Health Policy
06 humanities and the arts
Altruism
Biomedical Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Biomedical
TIME
Philosophy
Issues
ethics and legal aspects
Law
Health Resources
060301 applied ethics
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
CLINICAL-TRIALS
Zdroj: Journal of Medical Ethics. 43:417-421
ISSN: 1473-4257
0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015-102858
Popis: The ethics of benefit sharing has been a topical issue in global health research in resource-limited countries. It pertains to the distribution of goods, benefits and advantages to the research participants, communities and countries that are involved in research. One of the nuances in benefit sharing is the ethical justification on which the concept should be based. Extensive literature outlining the different principles underlying benefit sharing is available. The purpose of this paper is to examine the proposed principles using Aristotelian principles of justice. The paper assesses the central idea of Aristotelian justice and applies and evaluates this idea to benefit sharing in research, especially when commercial research sponsors conduct research in resource-limited countries. Two categories of Aristotelian justice-universal and particular-were examined and their contribution to the benefit-sharing discourse assessed. On the one hand, benefit sharing in accordance with universal justice requires that for-profit research sponsors obey the legal regulations and international standards set for benefit sharing. On the other hand, benefit sharing in accordance with particular justice transcends obeying legal requirements and standards to a realm of acting in an ethically accepted manner. Accordingly, the paper further examines three perspectives of particular justice and develops ethical justification for benefit sharing in global health research. As Aristotelian justice is still relevant to the contemporary discourse on justice, this paper broadens the ethical justifications of benefit sharing in global health research. ispartof: Journal of Medical Ethics vol:43 issue:6 pages:417-421 ispartof: location:England status: published
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