Research ethics with human beings: from deontological internationalization to national normative harmonization

Abstract

This article makes an approach to the ethics and deontology of Research with Human Beings (ISH) from a critical review methodology to the corpus of the main ISH instruments developed at international and national level. It begins with an analysis of the general framework of the ISH from the proposal of its international governance, its origins and the generation of its central categories embodied in bioethical principlism. Then, it describes its instruments from a historical review of its most relevant categories and the context of its relevance around the ethics of the ISH, which develops its normative and deontological application in Ecuador. Finally, suggestions and recommendations are made based on the different debates about contractual ethics, international governance itself with bioethical instruments and the challenges for ISH ethics in the country.