Belmont Report Ethical Dilemmas

The Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific affairs took the initiative by making a visible attempt in remolding the works of medical research by appointing an Ad Hoc Advisory Panel. The panel was comprised of nine members of various fields and backgrounds. The members were experts in health administration, medicine, law, religion, education, etc. The Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific affairs specifically chose a wide range of people with an expertise in different areas to bring a wide variety of thinking levels while reviewing the study.
The panel came to the consensus that the men freely participated in the study, stating that they agreed to the examinations and treatments provided to them. However, it was evident that
The Belmont Report, named after where the Commission convened at the Smithsonian Institution’s Belmont Conference Center, is the ethical Principles and Guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. The Belmont Report attempts to summarize the basic ethical principles identified by the National Commission in the course of its deliberations for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Report is a document of basic ethical principles and guidelines that should assist in resolving the ethical problems that surround the conduct of research with human
It demanded that a strict set of rules be followed in conduction research on human subjects. The Belmont Report consists of three basic principles: Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice. For the first principle, “Respect for Persons”, it is required that medical researchers obtain informed consent from their study participants, meaning that participants must be given accurate information about their circumstances and treatment options so that they may make an informed decision regarding what will happen to them. In addition, it is required for people to be treated autonomously and to protect those who have diminished autonomy such as children, prisoners and elderly. Following the first principle, “Beneficence” characterizes the second principle which expresses the idea that test subjects must be told of all possible risks as well as benefits of the treatment they agree to undertake. In addition, the test subjects must concretely obliged to such participation, not be involved because of an act of kindness or charity. The last principle discussed in the Belmont Report is the principle of justice. It is in essence a two-fold piece consisting of individual and societal justice. Individual and Societal justice are Individual justice means that a doctor or researcher cannot administer potentially helpful treatment to some favored class of participants while offering riskier treatments to anyone else.