PRO (For)
One of the main
reasons why one would turn to medical testing on humans would be because it is
important to know the effects of things such as medicine. “Up to a point,
animals may fulfill the proxy role of the classical physical experiment. But in
the end man himself must furnish knowledge about himself” (Hans Jonas, 1980),
meaning that animal experimentation can only be used so far. There comes a time
when the effects of animals on certain medicines, treatments, etc. are not
reliable, and for the good of humans, it has to be tested on humans to know if
it is truly okay. Another reason for the exploitation of people for medical
research could just be the fact that it would provide health for the public
good. “The cause invoked [for medical experimentation] is health and, in its
more critical aspect, life itself-clearly superlative goods that the physician
serves directly by curing and the researcher indirectly by the knowledge gained
through his experiments” (Hans Jonas, 1980). The quote states that there is no
other type of helpful knowledge that can be discovered other than by doing that
type of testing. Some arguments even go as far as saying “without human
testing, they will never know if the end results of all that elegant science
will actually do what it is intended to do and to make real human patients
better” (David Gorski, 2011), basically saying that medicine depends on human
experimentation.