Ethics in Research

A brief history: In 1974, as a result of increasing concern about research ethics, the U.S. Government created the National Commission for the Protection of Research Participants of Biomedical and Behavioural Research to identify the basic ethical principles underlying research and to recommend requirements for legitimate research. In 1979, motivated by the Public Health Service's Syphilis Study and others, and after several years of deliberations, the National Commission published the Belmont Report: a statement of the basic ethical principles and guidelines to be used to resolve the ethical problems that surround the conduct of research with human participants.

An important Canadian ethics document is the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, now in its 2nd edition(TCPS 2). TCPS 2 describes standards and procedures for governing research involving human participants in a way that promotes the highest ethical standards. Here is the link:Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans

https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/documents/tcps2-2022-en.pdf

Any potential risks and harm in the research must be disclosed, discussed, and approved by the IRB. The researchers cannot begin their study without IRB approval. The Nuremberg trials helped initiate our current IRB process. Here is a link to theNuremberg Trials.

https://nbg-02.lil.tools