Volunteers, Families and Patients

Abstract

assens in France the legality of biomedical research but it bases its logic on four pillars: the reminder of the pre-eminence of a logic of person protection in biomedical research, the clear definition of the status of the two main actors: the promoter and the investigator. the obhgation of a free informed consent and the Consultative Committee for Protecuon of Persons in Biomedical Research (C.C.P P.B R) as pivot structure. These independent committees with pluridisciplinanty composition, whose role is obligatory (decree of 27 December 1990) but whose notice has consultative value. are" look of the SOCial body on chnic tests. This inquuy allows us to have an overview on the functioning and the real activity of the C.C.P.P.B.R. The law has to offer to all citizens a protection of equal measures on all the territory. Results show the difference between the claim essentially ethics and critena of essentially scientific analysis. A statistical analysis (ANOVA) watch that the C.C.P.P.B.R. distribute in at least 7 different groups in function of criteria used. These verifications pose the problem of the harmonization of the functioning of committees and the inequahty of citizens in terms of protection.