The Current Law on Human Medical Trials in China

Abstract

Ethical and legal regulations are important factors in regulating human medical trials. Compared with legal regulation ethical regulation is a soft approach, so legal regulation must be involved in human medical trials. In this article we mainly discuss the current definition of law on the aspects of object, means and purposes of the human body medical test. According to the literature and the current status, with strict pragmatic attitude and compensation laws, human medical test will be controlled in the legal range, maximally be eliminated its negative effects and make medical science and technology and the whole life science benefit the mankind.