TITLE:
What Are the Ethical Problems Raised by the Increase of Cognitive Capabilities in the Defence Structure: The French Legal Structure, the Ethical Position of the French Military Health Service
AUTHORS:
Marion Trousselard, Frédéric Canini
KEYWORDS:
Ethics, Performances, Psychology, Research, Military Research
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.4,
March
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: All contemporary discussions concerning the ethics of human
experimentation are grounded in the Nuremberg Code (Macklin, 1992) which listed what for many
are the basic principles underlying the ethical conduct of human research. By law all scientific researches
that use human research volunteers are governed by regulations prescribing the
ethical treatment of these volunteers (Jones, 1993). The present purpose concerns what Ethics is in order to discuss
about how military researches are directly affected by these regulations. They
particularly concern neurosciences and precisely how to improve cognition for
military individuals. Main arsenal was discussed according the risk-benefit
balance. Furthermore, implications for medical reflexion were proposed. The French law prescribing the
ethical principles for conducting research on humans as animals have been
successively defined in accordance with European texts (French Public Health Code, 1994, 2004; Favre,
Vallet, Renaudeau et al., 2004). All of these have consequences for conducting
the French biomedical research for the defence.