Ethical Dumping Behavior and Its Inducement and Avoidance Strategy
Wang Shuang1, Zhang Xinqing1, Zheng Xiaolan2, Huang Xiaoru2
1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences,Peking Union Medical College Chinese Acedamy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730,China; 2. School of Marxism Studies,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China
Abstract：With the cross-border development of clinical trials,the phenomenon of ethical dumping has brought huge challenges to international scientific and technological cooperation and ethical governance.Clarifying the status quo,connotation,and incentives of ethical dumping is essential for dealing with ethical dumping.By retrospecting typical medical ethics events,this paper clarifies the concept of ethical dumping and its constituent elements,and argues that ethical dumping is morally sensitive,cross-cultural and unequal.After a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the incentives for ethical dumping in high-income countries and low-to middle-income countries,it is believed that international research cooperation should enhance the awareness of mutually beneficial cooperation and strictly abide by relevant international norms and ethical standards.Low-and middle-income countries should strengthen the establishment of ethical standards,fully consider the safety of trials when accepting transnational cooperation,and avoid the occurrence of ethical dumping.
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