**Nature of Vulnerability in Biomedical and Psychosocial Research Research**

**Nature of Vulnerability in Biomedical and Psychosocial** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.70186

Pablo Alejandro Millones Gómez

Pablo Alejandro Millones Gómez Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70186

#### **Abstract**

This chapter explores the ethics of research as one of the requirements in daily work, considering the protection of the dignity of subjects and the publication of information. It identifies which are the most vulnerable populations as well as the conflicting ones and the ambiguity in the decision making, which in many occasions recurrently appear in the review of the literature on human research. Also, it described strategies to overcome the ethical difficulties encountered in the call and follow-up, with a cultural sensitivity.

**Keywords:** vulnerability condition, biomedical, psychosocial research

### **1. Introduction**

Often, ethics committees or thesis jury members are in the uncertainty whether to approve or not some work involving the study in humans under so-called vulnerable conditions. And to what extent this could limit or surpass the rights of study subjects. It is necessary to know in detail what the characteristics of these populations are as well as the strategies to overcome these limitations considering the ethical and moral aspects that allow them. The objective of this chapter is to show basic concepts of studies in vulnerable populations, as well as their most relevant characteristics.
