Reflexiones sobre la ética de la experimentación con sujetos humanos a propósito de El doctor Arrowsmith (1931)

Abstract

The moral tension between individual rights versus common good in experimentation with human subjects has been constant throughout history. Taking as a basis the film Arrowsmith in which this problem is well reflected, an ethical analysis is made, bearing in mind the time when the film was made, some historical antecedents and, finally, establishing a comparison with the current situation.