ABSTRACT
An earlier version of this paper was presented at The 7th International Conference on Bioethics on "The Ethics of Research in Emergency Medicine", held on June 2, 2006, Warsaw, Poland.
E. Gefenas (E) Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, P.O. Box 2484, Vilnius 2051, Lithuania e-mail: eugenijus.gefenas@mf.vu.lt
Acknowledgements I express my thanks to Professor Andrzej Gorski as the organizer of the Warsaw conference, ' "The Ethics of Research in Emergency Medicine" (June 2, 2006), where I presented the first draft of the paper. A further development of the paper was also stimulated by the research project sponsored by the Commission of the European Union, DG-Research, EURECA on delimiting the concept of biomedical research.
