Schuklenk Udo
Department of Philosophy, Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy, Queen's University, Watson Hall 309, Kingston, ON, Canada,.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2017 Jul-Sep;2(3):169-172. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2017.047.
This paper reviews the 2016 CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans. I argue that these new guidelines constitute a significant improvement over the guidelines they replace. However, the procedures put in place by CIOMS resulted in an authoring group consisting of a majority of authors and advisors hailing from the global North, while the guidelines squarely aim at influencing policies in the global South. I question CIOMS' strategy to produce a consensus based document, and raise concerns about frequent appeals to authority designed to establish the credibility of these guidelines and the processes that led to them. It is unclear why it should be the role of a small organisation such as CIOMS to try to guide the research ethics policies in countries of the global South.
本文回顾了2016年国际医学科学组织理事会（CIOMS）《涉及人类的健康相关研究国际伦理准则》。我认为这些新准则相较于被其取代的准则有显著改进。然而，CIOMS制定准则的程序导致编写小组的多数作者和顾问来自全球北方，而这些准则的直接目标是影响全球南方的政策。我对CIOMS制定基于共识文件的策略提出质疑，并对频繁诉诸权威以确立这些准则及其制定过程的可信度表示担忧。尚不清楚为何应由像CIOMS这样的小组织来试图指导全球南方国家的研究伦理政策。
