HLTH 3098 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Belmont Report, Belmont Estate, Syphilis
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In response to the public concern about the ethics of the phs syphilis study, prisoner research, willowbrook, and other abuses in human research, hearings on "quality of health care. Human experimentation" were held before the subcommittee on health of the u. s. senate. Committee on labor and public welfare (commonly referred to as the "kennedy hearings") in: because of these hearings, congress passed the 1974 national research act. Research act has two major provisions relevant to human subjects research. It established the "national commission for the protection of human subjects of. Biomedical and behavioral research" (the national commission) to identify the basic ethical principles underlying human subjects research and develop guidelines for ensuring that human subjects research is conducted according to those guidelines. It required the establishment of institutional review boards (irbs) at organizations receiving phs support for human subjects research.
