BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND THE NEED FOR A PUBLIC POLICY.

The article asserts that there is a lack of proper protection provided to human beings from biomedical research in law, national health guidelines and ethical codes. This calls for a comprehensive public policy which protects human beings from being experimented upon by medical community. There is practically no statutory law regulating human experimentation, and the judge-made law is completely inadequate to protect those who are most likely to find themselves the subjects of experimentation like the poor, aged, children etc. The author insists that for several reasons ethical codes are completely useless as a means for protecting individuals. Institutions where human experimentation is conducted also seem more interested in protecting themselves than the people they serve.