3. Justice: Who ought to receive the benefits of research and bear its burdens? This is a question of justice, in the sense of "fairness in distribution" or "what is deserved." This principle is applied through the fair selection of research participants.
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Your university has an Institutional Review Board (IRB) that ensures that researchers are following these regulations. This video provides a short introduction to the work of IRBs.
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Most universities require that researchers participate in some type of training about human subjects research. A common training program is the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI).
References : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (nd). U.S. public health service syphillis study at Tuskegee. Retreived from: https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program). (nd). Retreived from: https://about.citiprogram.org/en/mission-and-history/
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1979). The Belmont Report: Ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. Retrieved from: https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/read-the-belmont-report/index.html#xethical
Johns Hopkins Medicine (nd). The legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Retrieved from: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henriettalacks/immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks.html
Chapter 2: Evaluation Planning To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. — Leonard Bernstein.
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