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