Basic Principles
Three basic principles regarding ethical research are outlined:
1. Respect for persons addresses the personal dignity and autonomy of individuals, and describes additional protection for special populations with less autonomy, such as children, pregnant women, fetuses, terminally ill patients, decisionally impaired individuals, medically incompetent persons, and prisoners. This principle reflects the need for proper informed consent, which must include all the essential elements and the additional elements, if applicable, as outlined in the federal regulations.
2. Beneficence, “do no harm”, implies an obligation to protect human participants from harm by assessing the risks and benefits of the research. Anticipated benefits must be greater than anticipated risks to comply with this principle.
3. Justice requires that research participants be fairly selected through a process that involves consideration of the purpose and expected outcome of the research. Selection should include consideration of the participant as an individual and as a member of society with regard to race, sex and ethnic group. The population of research participants should be similar to the population expected to benefit from the outcome of the research.
(Source: http://www.research.psu.edu/orp/humans)
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1. Respect for persons addresses the personal dignity and autonomy of individuals, and describes additional protection for special populations with less autonomy, such as children, pregnant women, fetuses, terminally ill patients, decisionally impaired individuals, medically incompetent persons, and prisoners. This principle reflects the need for proper informed consent, which must include all the essential elements and the additional elements, if applicable, as outlined in the federal regulations.
2. Beneficence, “do no harm”, implies an obligation to protect human participants from harm by assessing the risks and benefits of the research. Anticipated benefits must be greater than anticipated risks to comply with this principle.
3. Justice requires that research participants be fairly selected through a process that involves consideration of the purpose and expected outcome of the research. Selection should include consideration of the participant as an individual and as a member of society with regard to race, sex and ethnic group. The population of research participants should be similar to the population expected to benefit from the outcome of the research.
(Source: http://www.research.psu.edu/orp/humans)
(Image credit: http://socialstudies.mrdonn.org/powerpoints/humanrights.html)
A Matter of Human Rights
Why is ethics in research important?
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