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The Physiologist's Ethical Dilemmas

Ewald R. Weibel, Past-President, IUPS and Chair, IUPS Ethics Committee

Department of Anatomy, University of Berne, CH-3000 Berne 9, Switzerland
Abstract

Physiologists are bound to test their scientific theories in experiments on living matter and, ultimately, on living organisms—animals or humans. This confronts the physiologist with ethical dilemmas: can we engage in physiological eperiments in the face of possibly harming the interests of living beings, or should we refrain from such studies, thus preventing the good that can be derived from scientific progress?

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