Beyond the Belmont Report

by Wamia Siddiqui, BS and Richard R. Sharp, PhD The following blog is an editorial found from the American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 1, Issue 10. For decades, the Belmont Report—and the associated regulatory framework it inspired—has been a cornerstone in the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects. Despite its canonic status, there are many reasons to view the protections articulated in the Belmont Report as insufficient for managing the ethical challenges of biomedical research. For example, critics of the Belmont Report have suggested that its authors placed too much emphasis on individual choice, failed to consider research-related harms to nonparticipants, and built its regulatory framework around a model of participant interaction that does not apply in many types of biomedical research (Brothers et al. …
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