What principles of the Belmont Report were violated in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
Congressional intervention eventually led to the publication of the Belmont Report in 1979, which is now required reading for everyone involved in human subject research. The Belmont Report identifies three basic ethical principles regarding all human subject research: respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. • Respect for persons requires medical researchers to obtain informed consent from their study participants, which means that participants must be given accurate information about their circumstances and treatment options so that they can decide what will happen to them. • Beneficence means the all test subjects must be told of all possible risks as well as benefits of the treatment(s) they agree to undergo. • The principle of justice is actually two-fold. 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. Societal justice maintains that r
