The Belmont Report

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The Belmont Report is a statement of the basic ethical principles and guidelines based on the assisting and resolving the ethical problem surrounding the human subjects. The Belmont repot was created on July 12, 1974, from the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. During the mid-1970 a committee was formed for the purpose of providing guidance in human subject’s research. Their main goal is to discuss on what should be the general ethical recommendation to the human concern. They also want assemble the general rule relevant to the ethical concern from the human subject and ethical principles. They also wanted to provide moral guidance in the context of their The Belmont Report attempts …show more content…

The list started rejection of the brutal or inhumane treatment in the experiment as never morally justified. the Belmont Report was also written in response to some of the major violations of the 1950’s and 1960’s, but it was also formulated the two decades after the Nazi experiments of World War II(). Having acknowledged and prevent the inhuman actions formerly taken in the name of science, the list also mentioned the four more conditions, in which two of them was widely …show more content…

The risk necessary to reach the objectives should be permitted, and the determination should be made whether the alternative procedures involves in lessen the risk was available. The second list stated that the risks must be reveal in the consent form. The other final two list deals with vulnerable population that when vulnerable populations participate in the research, special precautions must be taken into account to avoid risk. The other risk is the case of serious harm. For example, when there is risk of serious impairment or harm, the committees should be extraordinarily insistent on inspecting the agreement and identifying the good reason for exposing the participants to the significant risk of a serious harm. Furthermore, The Systematic Assessment of Risks and Benefits section fails to mention whether or how the prospect of the benefit to the society should weigh into the calculus, and how it might be justify risk and harms. The decision was also made in the name of respect to the persons and their autonomy may result in different

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