Research with human participants has proven invaluable, in advancing knowledge in the biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences. Such research is strictly regulated, with laws at the federal, state, and local levels. Further, professional societies have developed discipline-specific standards, policies, and guidelines for ensuring that the rights and welfare of research participants is protected.
In the early 1970s, following widely publicized cases of research abuse, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was created to study issues surrounding the protection of humans in research. In 1979 the Commission issued a report entitled Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (commonly called the Belmont Report), which provided the ethical framework on which current federal regulations for the protection of human participants in research are based.
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