2014, Vol.15, No.2

Journal of the Korea Bioethics Association 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.55

pISSN : 1598-0324
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kba

In the human subject research, informed consent is the starting point of relationship between the researcher and the subject based on which that research is conducted in scientific and ethical manners. However, the more important thing is that the legitimacy of the consent depends on not just getting it, but how much ethically the human subject research is to be conducted. The purpose of this study was to provide the right ethics of relation between the researcher and the subject, which is required for the latter’s consent based on sufficient information, with reference to Levinas’ Ethics of the Other. According to his Ethics of the Other, Levinas criticizes egocentric awareness and claims that the other-centered relationship can provide a solution to ethical issues. In conclusion, Levinas’ Ethics of the Other suggests how the researcher and the subject should be aware of the other’s otherness and responsible for that party in the human subject research. With the awareness and the responsibility, both of the parties can do their respective rights and duties. And at the same time, they can work together on the human subject research in scientific and ethical manners as they unite with each other under a common destination, that is, achieving the purpose of that research.

The most important principle to conduct the research is to protect the rights and welfare of human research participants. Ultimately, the research related law can contribute to the protection of the research participants because the legal regulation, the administrative regulation by the authority and self-regulation by the institution and the researchers are based on the standards of the law. Recently, 「Bioethics and Safety Act」 that has maintained the status as the framework act to regulate the research legally has whollyamended at 2012 and has been in effect from 2013. According to the whole amendment, the provision about the basic principles for the activities under this act has been includedin this act. In other words, the basic principles for the research involving human research participants as well as human materials and identifiable information have been created to protect the human research participants. And the scope of the research that this act applies to has been extended to the human research and human material research, so the researcher has taken on the legal obligation not only to submit the research protocol or plan to the Institutional Review Board for the review and approval before the conduct of the research but also to provide information about the research sufficiently to the human research participants or the human material donors and to obtain the written consent from them. Also, under this act, besides the review of the research, the Institutional Review Board has taken charge of the oversight of the research, the education for the researchers, the formulation of measures for the protection of the vulnerable persons and groups, the establishment of ethical guidelines for the researchers. Moreover, the provisions about the evaluation and accreditation to the Institutional Review Board, the designation of the public Institutional Review Board, the establishment and operation of the human material bank have been includedin this act. It is very meaningful that this act has been changed to build up the infrastructure for the protection of the human research participants. But, despite these significant changes, this act has still some limitations to protect the human research participants. Because this act has not included some important definitions such as the research, minimal risk as well as not presented enough detailed standards and procedures that are needed to make a determination and to take an action. Therefore, now it is time to find and analyze these limitations, to come up with a solution and to prepare the amendment of this act. Because, for many years to come, this act,as the framework act for the research, should be the foundation for the protection of the human research participant and be enable to present the right standards and practical ways for the institution, the Institutional Review Board and the researcherto protect the rights and welfare of human research participants.

Today, ethical issues are why the philosophy of life do you need? The question : this letter, questioning the set off. Modern biotech is a philosopher's role in cloning and genetic engineering and other related topics and to emphasize. And of course, also a moral philosopher on the other hand the discussion of traditional life of thought and life philosophy, shall be included on the other hand, philosophers themselves of modern science and civilizationIn human beings and human development issues posed by the society that examining the bioethical issues in the context of philosophy and convergence becomes even more careful in request. In this context, a writer is a reductionist frontier and on human error, integrated and holistic perspective and overcome human life can take a view to the metaphysicalBased on the theory finds it can find a possible resolution of ethical questions when life. Metaphysics is the meaning of human life, because Modern's blind and trying to understand biological knowledge based on the existence of biological front page attention beyond the (Biologism)Because they can be grown in the process that presents a existential reason for the horizon. To this end, the writer Stein of the existence - a single body as a life philosophy and metaphysics of today's modern society on the basis of a reductionist argument about body, the same time criticizing. And ‘The science that does not appropriate’ ‘Psychology who has no soul’ or overcoming of one aspect of modern life sciences at the same time, identified by the academic results and knowledgeWhile not neglecting the existential implications of a knowledge, and the meaning of life as a whole, and attempts to build up a science, philosophy and explaining life. Stein being presented in the process of a single body as the existence philosophy and metaphysics paradigm must be the only meaningful debate is one of life.