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                Date of Publication: July 01, 2013
            
                             DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2013.053
                            
                     
        
             
            
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         Research Articles  
                
        Justice in jeopardy: a qualitative study of institutional ethics committees in New Delhi
        
        
        
        
            Abstract:
             Protecting the safety and welfare of clinical trial subjects is the primary responsibility of the multidisciplinary ethics committee. In India, ethics committees have come under increasing criticism for functioning as “secret societies unaccountable to the public” .
         
        
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