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Правни аспекти на институционализираната система за етичен анализ и морална оценка на научните медицински изследвания върху хора
Legal Aspects of the Institutionalised System of Ethical Analysis and Moral Evaluation of Scientific Human Medical Experimentation

Author(s): Ivaylo Ivanov Staykov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Нов български университет
Keywords: Legal regulation; Act on Public Health; Institutionalized system; Ethics committees; Medical experiments with human beings; Proposals de lege ferenda

Summary/Abstract: The subject of study in the present paper is the legal regulation of the institutionalized system of ethical analysis and moral evaluation of medical experiments with human beings. In that regard both domestic and international legal instruments regulating the activity of the Ethics Committees in the area of scientific human medical experimentation are subject of analysis in the paper. Moreover, the paper makes critical analysis of the relevant provisions of the Act on Public Health as well as some propositions de lege ferenda on the future amelioration of internal legislation regarding the activity of those ethical commissions.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 102-113
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bulgarian