The Belmont Report at 40

Reckoning With Time

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ID11037336
AuthorsEli Y Adashi (0000-0001-7730-1192, Eli Y. Adashi is with the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI. LeRoy B. Walters is with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Jerry A. Menikoff is with the Office for Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD.), LEROY WALTERS (0000-0003-0640-130X, Georgetown University), LeRoy B Walters (Eli Y. Adashi is with the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI. LeRoy B. Walters is with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Jerry A. Menikoff is with the Office for Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD.), Jerry A Menikoff (Eli Y. Adashi is with the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, RI. LeRoy B. Walters is with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Jerry A. Menikoff is with the Office for Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD.), Jerry Menikoff (0009-0001-7032-3070, Georgetown University)
Year2018
Volume108
Issue10
Pages1345-1348
Publication date2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2018.304580
PMID30138058
OpenAlexW2888365450
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited12

It was the summer of 1972 when a stunned nation first learned of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, during which hundreds of poor, disease-stricken black men from Macon County Alabama, had been deliberately left untreated for 40 years. Coming on the heels of multiple, earlier examples of unethical human experimentation, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study made it plain that the moral foundation of human subject research was in desperate need of repair. Blind reliance on the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki was no longer going to suffice. It was against this backdrop that Congress resolved to act. Numerous hearings and multiple spirited discussions later, an agreement was struck to constitute the “Commission.” The outgrowth of a retreat held at the Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center, the Belmont Report lays out a principled analytical framework to “guide the resolution of ethical problems arising from research involving human subjects.” Durable and ever-present, the Belmont Report, which is the foundational document that reset the ethics of human subject research, must now reckon with all-important novel issues of the day that could not have been foreseen by its drafters

Commission · Criminology · Declaration · Declaration of Helsinki · Helsinki declaration · Human research · Informed consent · Institution · Library science · Pathology · Political science · Psychiatry · Research ethics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Computer Science · Ethics in Clinical Research · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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