Institutional Review Boards

Resources

Investigators may find it beneficial to review some of the resources listed below before submitting a human subjects request.

Regulations and General Information
Federal Regulations
45 CFR 46 (from NIH)

Office for Human Research Protections Home Page

The Belmont Report (from NIH)

General scientific and medical ethics
The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western University website

The Nuremberg Code

Nuremberg Doctor's Trial
United States Holocaust Museum

Stanley Milgram Experiments
Dr. Thomas Blass' website about the life and work of Stanley Milgram

CDC's Tuskegee Syphilis Study website
Story from National Public Radio, July 22, 2002

Tuskegee syphilis experiments
Story from National Public Radio, July 22, 2002

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee website

Shared Responsibilities
Stuttering /"Monster" Study of 1939
Alliance for Human Research Protections (AHRP) compilation of articles

Havasupai Diabetes Study
Link to the East Valley Tribune Newspaper - search archives for story entitled "Havasupai Tribe files $50M lawsuit against ASU" published on March 17, 2004

1950s Study on Wichita Jury Deliberations
Barnes, J.A. The Ethics of Inquiry in Social Science. Delhi: Oxford University Press: 1977

Privacy and Confidentiality
Tearoom Trade Study
Humphreys, Laud: Tearoom trade; impersonal sex in public places, Chicago, Aldine Pub. Co., 1970

Tearoom Trade Study (p 66) plus general history of ethical concerns for research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
National Academy of Sciences Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and Education (BCSSE), "Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research", 2003

"Undercover Freshman" study
Nathan, Rebekah: My freshman year: what a professor learned by becoming a student. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2005

Privacy and confidentiality issues in the social and behavioral sciences
(available online: http://www.nap.edu/books/0309088526/html/)
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences and Education (BCSSE). Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research. National Academies Press, 2003.

American Statistical Association Website

Deception in Research
APA Code of Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
Deception in Research and Debriefing (Sections 8.07 and 8.08)

Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
"When is Deception Ethically Justified in Research?"

Baumrind, D. (1985). Research using intentional deception: Ethical issues revisited. American Psychologist. 40(2), 165-174
View Article

Certificate of Confidentiality (NIH)

Risks and Benefits Module
Stanford prison experiments
Phillip Zimbardo's website documenting his infamous experiments

Minimal risk (federal definition from OHRP)

Federal protections for vulnerable groups:
Pregnant Women, Human Fetuses and Neonates

Prisoners

Children
 

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