TY - JOUR
T1 - Research ethics aspects of experimentation with LSD on human subjects
T2 - a historical and ethical review
AU - Bodnár, Kristóf János
AU - Kakuk, Péter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2019/6/15
Y1 - 2019/6/15
N2 - In this paper our aim is to examine whether research conducted on human participants with LSD-25 (lysergic acid diethylamide) raises unique research ethical questions or demands particular concerns with regard to the design, conduct and follow-up of these studies, and should this be the case, explore and describe those issues. Our analysis is based on reviewing publications up to date which examine the clinical, research and other uses of LSD and those addressing ethical and methodological concerns of these applications, just as some historical examinations of this subject. The first chapters of the paper give an overview regarding the history of LSD-research with human participants, healthy volunteers and patients alike. The remaining chapters have a focus on questions regarding the potential ethical issues of such human trials in the contemporary research ethics framework. We also consider briefly political and regulatory issues regarding this substance that possibly affect its clinical and research applications.
AB - In this paper our aim is to examine whether research conducted on human participants with LSD-25 (lysergic acid diethylamide) raises unique research ethical questions or demands particular concerns with regard to the design, conduct and follow-up of these studies, and should this be the case, explore and describe those issues. Our analysis is based on reviewing publications up to date which examine the clinical, research and other uses of LSD and those addressing ethical and methodological concerns of these applications, just as some historical examinations of this subject. The first chapters of the paper give an overview regarding the history of LSD-research with human participants, healthy volunteers and patients alike. The remaining chapters have a focus on questions regarding the potential ethical issues of such human trials in the contemporary research ethics framework. We also consider briefly political and regulatory issues regarding this substance that possibly affect its clinical and research applications.
KW - Clinical trial
KW - LSD research
KW - Lysergic acid diethylamide
KW - Psychedelic research
KW - Research ethics
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U2 - 10.1007/s11019-018-9871-9
DO - 10.1007/s11019-018-9871-9
M3 - Review Article
C2 - 30327902
AN - SCOPUS:85055552341
SN - 1386-7423
VL - 22
SP - 327
EP - 337
JO - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
JF - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
IS - 2
ER -