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OBJECTIVES
General: After 1 hour and 30 mins. The BSN level 2 students will be able to
apply ethico-moral concepts and principles , discuss issues and concerns in
varied health care situations affecting the care of individuals, families,
population group and community in the concept of bioethics and research.
Specifically they will be able to:
Specific:
1. Identify the Principles of Ethics and Research
2. Discuss the historical events and development of Ethics and Research
in respect to the following :
2.1 Nuremberg Code
2.2 Declaration of Helsinki
2.3 Belmont Report
OBJECTIVES
HISTORICAL
EVENTS AND 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments Food,
DEVELOPMENT Drug and Cosmetic Act
HISTORICAL
EVENTS AND Tuskeegee Study Exposed 1979
DEVELOPMENT
Belmont Report
Due to the publicity from the Syphilis Study,
the National Research Act of 1974 was passed.
The National Research Act created the National
Commission for the Protection of Human
Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral
National Research.
Research Act The Commission charge was to identify the
(1974) basic ethical principles that should underlie the
conduct of biomedical and behavioral research
involving human participants and to develop
guidelines which should be followed to assure
that such research is conducted in accordance
with those principles.
National Carrying out its charge, the Commission
Commission for prepared the Belmont Report in 1979.
the Protection of The Belmont Report is a statement of
Human Subjects basic ethical principles and guidelines
of Biomedical that provide “an analytical framework to
guide the resolution of the ethical
and Behavioral problems arising from research with
Research human subjects.”
Thus, the Belmont Report attempts to summarize the
basic ethical principals identified by the Commission in
the course of its deliberations.
It is the outgrowth of an intensive four-day period of
discussions that were held in February 1976 at the
BELMONT Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center
supplemented by the monthly deliberations of the
REPORT Commission that were held over a period of nearly four
years.
It is a statement of basic ethical principles and
guidelines that should assist in resolving the ethical
problems that surround the conduct of research with
human subjects.
The
Framework of A. boundaries between practice and
the Belmont research
Report is
B. basic ethical principals
presented into
three C. applications.
discussion
topics:
TERM TERM DEFINITION OUTCOME
Interventions designed Reasonable
Practice solely to enhance the expectation of Success
well-being of an
A. Boundaries individual
between
Practice and Activity designed to Permits a conclusion to
test hypothesis; be drawn
Research Research contributes to general
knowledge
1.Respect for Persons
B. Consist of 3
basic Principles
2.Beneficence
3. Justice
Treat people as autonomous (having the
right to self-govern) agents.
1. Respect for
Persons Protect those who has diminished
autonomy (vulnerable populations), e.g.
children, prisoners, elderly.
Do no harm,
Risk/Benefits assessment