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Concluding remarks
One of the permanent challenges in the Brazilian process is the need of
Education in issue ethics of research with humans. Many people because
of this specific need had the chance to encounter with bioethics. It’s been
said that one the important factors of development of bioethics in the
country is justly the growing network of social control of the researches
made by the network of ethics research committees.
There is now an abundant literature in Portuguese on the subject bioeth-
ics; there are journals on the Bioethics edited in Brazil and several attempts
of introducing Bioethics in undergraduate programs has being made in
many Brazilian universities. And there is already three graduate courses on
Bioethics in the country and one doctorate program.
It can be said that in the last decade there has been an increasing interest
in ethics in research in Brazil and keeps growing. The National Com-
mission of Ethics in Research (CONEP) and all Institutional Ethics
Committees (CEPs) changed investigator’s behavior and ought to have
the credit for making the difference. However, there is much to be done in
order to give the society a whole a basic understanding of medical research
and its requirements, not only regarding the resources that are invested
but also concerning their participation. We have to recognize that the
Brazilian investigators are now more aware that scientific investigation
needs social and ethics controls. So, the seed is sown and we hope from
the seed a plant will flourish.
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