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Korean Association of Institutional Review Boartds (대한기관윤리심의기구협의회)
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Ethics Involving Human Subject Research in Military Medicine

군진의학 연구에서 인간대상 연구윤리

  • Kwon, Ivo (Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Ewha Womans University)
  • 권복규 (이화여자대학교 의과대학 의학교육학교실)
  • Received : 2022.09.01
  • Accepted : 2022.09.25
  • Published : 2022.09.30
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Abstract

The goal of the military medicine is not as same as that of the civil medical practice, and consequently the characteristics of military biomedical researches have their own uniqueness. In front of the prerogative of national defense, some of the human rights ordinarily ensured in normal researches with human subjects are not to be fully guaranteed. The hierarchic system of the military would complicate the issue when the soldiers are enrolled as human subject for the research. Some researches could be classified as a military secret, therefore, the confidentiality issues need to be well addressed. Institutional Review Board and review procedure should be modified for the military purposes. So, it is necessary to establish the appropriate regulatory system for the military biomedical researches with human subject to manage the complicated issues involved in them.

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