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Belmont Report – The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is pleased to announce a new page on its website – the Belmont Report Historical Archive.  We encourage everyone to visit the site and review this important part of the history of human subject protections.

The Belmont Archive includes:

  • Belmont Report Oral History Interviews – transcripts of interviews with members, staff and consultants of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1974-78); OHRP will soon add the video versions of these interviews;
  • Training Video – a 9-minute educational/training video with highlights from the Oral History interviews;
  • Commemorative Program Video – a one-hour edited version of the November 16, 2004 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ceremony honoring the members, staff and consultants of the National Commission; and
  • History of the Belmont Report – a short history of the Belmont Report and the current human subject protection regulations.

World Medical Association: The Declaration of Helsinki - The World Medical Association issued The Declaration of Helsinki, a statement of ethical principles to provide guidance to physicians and other participants in medical research involving human subjects. Visit the World Medical Association website to read the Declaration of Helsinki.

The Nuremberg Code – Directives for Human Experimentation resulting from the Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law.   Learn more about the Nuremberg Code.

Resources

The President’s Council on Bioethics http://www.bioethics.gov

Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania http://www.bioethics.net

Johns Hopkins University Bioethics Institute http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/bioethics/

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Georgetown University http://kennedyinstitute.georgetown.edu/

The Hastings Center http://www.thehastingscenter.org/

Indiana University Center for Bioethics http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/

National Institutes of Health: Bioethics Resources on the Web http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/index.html

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