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|Is About=Research Ethics Committees (RECs) were developed after WW2, particularly in response to the Nazi doctors’ trials. An Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board is responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human research are carried out in an ethical manner. <ref>Yenikekaluva A. Research Ethics for Health Science Involving Human Experiments. Available at: http://itn-pace.eu/research-ethics-for-health-science-involving-human-experiments-by-abhijith-yenikekaluva/. Accessed 29 May, 2019.</ref> | |Is About=Research Ethics Committees (RECs) were developed after WW2, particularly in response to the Nazi doctors’ trials. An Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board is responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human research are carried out in an ethical manner. <ref>Yenikekaluva A. Research Ethics for Health Science Involving Human Experiments. Available at: http://itn-pace.eu/research-ethics-for-health-science-involving-human-experiments-by-abhijith-yenikekaluva/. Accessed 29 May, 2019.</ref> |
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Research ethics committees
What is this about?
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) were developed after WW2, particularly in response to the Nazi doctors’ trials. An Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board is responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human research are carried out in an ethical manner. [1]
- ↑ Yenikekaluva A. Research Ethics for Health Science Involving Human Experiments. Available at: http://itn-pace.eu/research-ethics-for-health-science-involving-human-experiments-by-abhijith-yenikekaluva/. Accessed 29 May, 2019.
Why is this important?
Research ethics committees have been created with two main goals. First is to protect the rights, safety, dignity and well-being of research participants; and second is to facilitate and promote ethical research that is of potential benefit to participants, science and society. [1]
- ↑ Research Ethics Service (RES) - Health Research Authority. 2016. http://www.hra.nhs.uk/about-the-hra/our-committees/res/. Accessed 10 Jan 2016.)
For whom is this important?
What are the best practices?
The Embassy Editorial team, Iris Lechner, Natalie Evans, Rosie Hastings, Andrijana Perković Paloš, Joshua Gualtieri contributed to this theme. Latest contribution was Jul 03, 2023