Belmont Report And Nuremberg Code

The Belmont report and Nuremburg Code provide useful ethical principles and guidelines for protection of human subjects. The Nuremberg Code is a useful for protecting the subjects of a research project. It clearly states that the voluntary consent of the human subjects in essential. The Nuremberg Code also states that the results should be fruitful and for the good of society. Also, these two documents have codes that expects experiments to be conducted to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. The Belmont report is a bit more detailed, but also covers the ethical principles and guidelines for any research that involves human subjects. The Belmont report also provides useful guidance by defining the boundaries between
practice and research. This is useful because it is important for individuals to be able to distinguish between biomedical and behavioral research.