BIOL 4651 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: United States Public Health Service, Randomized Controlled Trial, Nuremberg Code
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Intervention involves experiences that are comparable to those that subjects normally experience. It is impermissible to conduct research on neediest to provide therapeutic benefits only to those who are better off. Case 2 research and medicine collide in haiti. Declaration of helinski: ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. Basic principles for all medical research: duty of physician to protect life, health, privacy and dignity of human subject, research must conform ot generally accepted scientific principles. Additional principles for medical research combined with medical care. Individuals should be treated as autonomous agents: persons with diminished autonomy are entitled to protection, beneficence, do not harm, maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms to patient. Justice: to each person, an equal share, according to individual need, according to individual effort, according to societal contribution, according to merit. Creation of advisory committee: president clinton appointed this in jan 15, 1994 to investigate reports of possibly unethical experiments funded by government decades ago.