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Jeffrey Willett
Oct 25, 2009
What is Bioethics?
Human beings occupy a planet filled with complex challenges and difficult issues. Bioethics was developed to help people cope with advances in medicine and technology.
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Oct 23, 2009
Guiding Principles for Clinical Investigation
As a physician, Henry K. Beecher understood all too well the problems associated with clinical research. In 1966, he published some guiding principles for researchers.
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Oct 21, 2009
Ethical Principles Guiding Biomedical Research
The National Research Act (1974) set forth ethical principles for research on human subjects. Three additional initiatives followed to put those principles into practice.
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Oct 19, 2009
Henry K. Beecher and Clinical Experimentation
Medical research and informed consent have been shrouded in four myths. According to a 1966 article by Henry K. Beecher, the reality was quite different.
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Oct 16, 2009
CIOMS (1949-2009)
Although formed as a non-profit organization in 1949, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) has played an important role in bioethics.
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Oct 10, 2009
The Belmont Report of 1979
Despite ethical questions raised by the Nuremberg Code and other guidelines, human experimentation abuses continued. In 1974, public policy focused on clinical research.
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Oct 4, 2009
Informed Consent
Informed consent was designed to protect humans from unauthorized experimentation. Over time, the principle was formalized into a process that met other requirements.
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