Ethics and Experimental Medicine Progress

Abstract

According to Larousse Encyclopaedic Dictionary (Ed. 1987), “Ethics” is defined as a doctrine of humans’ happiness and the means to access to this aim. It is also a specific teaching of the rules of living. As to Bioethics, it is considered as the “science of the medical morality”. “Progress” is characterized as a movement ahead and is supposed to contribute to increase human welfare. “Experimentation” consists in the use of due techniques in order to try to prove the rightness of a new proposal, to verify hypotheses. A hypothesis itself is defined as a proposal coming derived from observation or induction and necessitating verification, from which consequences may be draught. We shall not discuss the definitions, but only some situation developing during the last years in relation with the rising influence of so called ethic pressure in most of the medicine domains. This situation may interfere with the real possibilities for experimental medicine going ahead, with further development and hence probabilities of significant discoveries, innovations, inventions allowing mankind to progress. Presently experimental medicine domain includes both human and animal sphere.