Ethics of clinical research: lessons for the future.
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TL;DR
The Bulletin of the Institute of Medical Ethics published an anonymous article by an aggrieved patient complaining that she was entered into two clinical trials without informed consent, followed by a discussion of the ethical issues of consent in randomised trials.
Abstract
an anonymous article by an aggrieved patient com- plaining that she was entered into two clinical trials without informed consent.' The editor decided that all concerned should remain anonymous in order to concentrate on issues rather than personalities. The article was preceded by a fierce editorial depicting the perpetrators as being equivalent to Nazi war criminals and the patient to a survivor of Auschwitz. The rest of that issue of the Bulletin contained a carefully selected series of papers, letters, and reviews, all supporting the editorial prejudice.