Civil Liability for Medical Experiments

Medical experiments on the human body are among the medical interventions that cannot be avoided for the advancement of medical and surgical sciences. Thanks to these experiments, scientists have been able to reduce many diseases that claimed numerous human lives for a long time; many of them have now faded into oblivion, and those that remain no longer pose a danger to humanity’s future, as their treatments are now accessible. For a human body experiment to be legitimate, it must be conducted according to specific legal conditions and regulations. Violation of these legal frameworks for conducting medical experiments results in the civil liability of the person conducting the experiment. This liability may take two forms: contractual liability, which arises if there is a valid contract between the harmed subject and the responsible physician-researcher, and if the damage resulted from the physician’s breach of contractual obligations; or tortious liability, which arises when the physician-researcher violates a legal duty imposed by the law regulating the medical profession, causing harm to the test subject.