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National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

About National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research

The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was created by the U.S. National Research Act of 1974, passed after public outrage over the Tuskegee syphilis study. Its eleven members, including physicians, lawyers, ethicists and theologians, met from 1974 to 1978 and wrote reports on research with children, prisoners and other groups, of which the Belmont Report is the best known.

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The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research

1979 (drafted 1976–1978) · Postwar Contemporary · Essays

The Belmont Report is a short statement of ethical principles for research involving human beings, issued by an American national commission and published on 18 April 1979. It takes its name from the Belmont Conference Center in Elkridge, Maryland, where the commission held intensive discussions in 1976.