Guinea Pig Duties: 7. Contingent Rights of Patients in Clinical Research

Abstract

In these articles I have so far explored the set of duties that call upon patients to participate in clinical research as subjects of it. Here I consider whether they acquire a set of rights in consequence of participation, and what these rights may be.

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