Thank you for your detailed response Jan Rapan.

At birth, we take our first breath and it is also the last thing we do as we die - it's a biological process. Research is not a function of our biology, but an aspect of societal arrangements which includes the political ie what is considered worthy of research, the methodology permitted (for example a white supremacist society permitted experiments on African males without their knowledge or permission.( the Tuskegee experiments when people were infected with syphilis).