Monograph that addresses the subject of both ethical and scientific standards applied to research. It includes the lectures entitled "Ethical and scientific norms in clinical trials for medicines" and "The ethics of research in developing countries" given by two well-known professors in the field, Professor Silvio Garattini, Director of the "Mario Negri" Institute of Pharmacological Research of Italy, and Professor Solomon R. Benatar, Director of the University of Cape Town Bioethics Center of South Africa. Both lectures are accompanied by the views of various specialists in this subject.