The Belmont Report

Practice

Refers to interventions that are designed solely to enhance the well-being of an individual patient or client and that have a reasonable expectation of success

Application for Beneficence

Risk-Benefit Assessment

Application for Justice

Selection of Human Subjects

National Research Act

Signed into law on 1974, which created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

Basic Ethical Principles

1. Respect for Persons 2. Beneficence 3. Justice

Justice

Fariness in human subject research selection, should not be done simply because they are institutionalized or marginalized or is easily accessible

Three Elements of Informed Consent per Belmont Report

Information, Comprehension, and Voluntariness

Belmont Report

It is a statment or summary of basic ethical principles and guidelines that should assist in resolving the ethical problems that surround the conduct of research with human subjects

Research

designates an activity designed to test a hypothesis, permit conclusions to be drawn, and thereby to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge (expressed, for example, in theories, principles, and statements of relationships)

Application of Respect for Persons

informed consent

Experimental

meand new, untested or different, does not automatically place it in the category of research.

Respect for Persons

two ethical convictions: first, that individuals should be treated as autonomous agents, and second, that persons with diminished autonomy are entitled to protection

Beneficence

two general rules have been formulatef as complementary expressions of beneficent actions in this sense: 1) do not harm and 2) maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms