Do patients without treatment options have a moral right to unproven drugs? Write a paper that explains and defends your view on this issue. In addition to reviewing the suggested resources, you are encouraged to locate additional resources in the Capella library, your public library, or authoritative websites to provide additional support for your viewpoint. Be sure to weave and cite the resources throughout your work. In your paper, address the following points:
Identify relevant ethical theories and moral principles.
Explain how the principle of informed consent is relevant to the issue.
Explain the costs and benefits of making unproven, unapproved experimental drugs widely available to patients. Consider the costs and benefits to the patients who take these drugs as well as other patients.
Explain arguments using examples in favor of and opposing prescription of trial drugs to wider pools of patients.
Support your view using ethical theories and/or moral principles that you find most relevant to the issue.
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