Vera Sharav on the Importance of Doing No Harm to the Individual
When medicine veers away from the Hippocratic Oath that promises to respect the individual right to do no harm to the individual, then you’re going to harm the community as well, because the community is a bunch of individuals. There are crossroads in life where you have to make choices, and if you don’t, someone […]
‘Unethical’ Clinical Trials of Vaccines Pose Threat to Human Lives
Opinion | Primum non nocere—“first, do no harm”—is a basic tenet of medical ethics. That is about to change in India. “Controlled Human Infection Method” (CHIM) studies are planned to be introduced here. Humans are to be deliberately infected with diseases to test the efficiency of experimental vaccines. It will provide a shortcut to vaccine licensing […]
