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KMID : 1011120210140030113
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2021 Volume.14 No. 3 p.113 ~ p.134
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The Ethics of Study Impacts on Bystanders
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Lee Kyung-Do
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Abstract
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Most current regulations in research ethics are devoted to protecting the rights of study participants. On the contrary, a possibility that some studies might affect study bystanders has largely been neglected within the field of research ethics. Bystanders have not been placed within the purview of current regulations, even though their rights may be infringed by or require some protection from research activities. Some scholars recently began to pay attention to the issue of study impacts on bystanders, and suggested several different approaches to it. First, some suggested that it is required for researchers to treat bystanders in the same way as study participants, such that researchers have to seek individual informed consent from and grant veto right to bystanders. Second, some rejected this approach by arguing that more stringent protection is warranted for bystanders since they cannot often be informed with, protected from, and prepared for any potential risk or harm generated from research. Third, some others objected to both of these approaches and claimed that there are some moral and practical reasons to let us believe that bystander risks are more readily justifiable than study participants’ risks. Although it is not feasible to come up with a single unified framework here and resolve all of the ongoing disagreements, this article aims to analyze the logical structures of these distinct positions and introduce some of the relevant considerations to ethically assess bystander risks.
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KEYWORD
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Research ethics, Informed consent, Study bystanders, Bioethics, Public health ethics
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