Ethical Syllogism

Ethical Syllogism

All experiments violate human rights. Some clinical experiments are ethical. Therefore, some ethical practices violate human practices.

            While medical research has been conducted on volunteering human beings, it is crucial to consider the protection of rights, the safety of the participants, and their well-being. In a study conducted by (Nicholls et al., 2022), studies conducted on vulnerable patients tend to lack the protection of the vulnerable participants and an overall challenge in participant capacity assessment and consent-seeking approaches. This study (Nicholls et al., 2022) also posits that some clinical studies fail to report ethical approval, which translates to uninformed consent of the participating patients and fails patient protection approaches. As such, it is ideal that while pragmatic randomized clinical trials (RCTs) posit numerous opportunities for more real-life clinical decisions, there is an overall applicability challenge in dementia patients. The article exudes the increasing need for surrogate decision-makers for dementia patients beyond the early stage of the disease due to lost decisional capacity to issue consent. Accordingly, dementia patients are also depicted as vulnerable to incurring harm or mistreatment, which often relates to their limited physical and psychological capabilities to make decisions and operate independently. As such, therefore, seeking to utilize surrogate decision-makers, researchers robustly respect human dignity as presented by the patient consent concept, including protection against harm.

Reference

Nicholls, S.G., Carroll, K., Nix, H.P., Li, F., Hey, S.P., Mitchell, S.L., Weijer, C., Taljaard, M., 2022. Ethical considerations within pragmatic randomized controlled trials in dementia: Results from a literature survey. Alzheimer’s Dement. Transl. Res. Clin. Interv. 8, e12287. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12287

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Find an outside source that argues for some specific ethical standards in its argumentation. Translate it into a syllogism and evaluate its position.