[Bioethics and drug experimentation in hospitalized patients]

The authors discuss about clinical experimentation with drugs involving hospitalized subjects in consideration of four principles of Bioethics: Autonomy, Beneficence, Non Maleficence and Justice. This article explores also the problems linked to the application of good clinical practice according to the European and Italian recent rules. Human integrity, respect of patient's dignity, informed consent, correct methods, placebo, Ethics committees represent the essential basis for those researchers that intend conduct clinical trials really "with subject and not on the subject".