The Belmont Report was written in response to the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which African Americans with syphilis were lied to and denied treatment for more than 40 years. Many people died as a result, infected others with the disease, and passed congenital syphilis onto their children.

The Belmont Report established three basic ethical principles – 1)respect for persons, 2)beneficence, and 3)justice – which are the cornerstone for regulations involving human subjects.

Which of the following principles of the Belmont Report requires that individuals be capable of making deliberate decisions about whether to participate in research? 8. The Belmont Report’s ethical principle of justice requires that: participants make deliberate decisions about whether to participate in research.

The Tuskegee Study violated basic bioethical principles of respect for autonomy (participants were not fully informed in order to make autonomous decisions), nonmaleficence (participants were harmed, because treatment was withheld after it became the treatment of choice), and justice (only African Americans were …

The Belmont Report is one of the leading works concerning ethics and health care research. Its primary purpose is to protect subjects and participants in clinical trials or research studies. This report consists of 3 principles: beneficence, justice, and respect for persons.

Although never officially adopted by the US Congress or the Department of Health Education and Welfare (now Department of Health and Human Services), the Belmont Report has served as an ethical framework for protecting human subjects and its recommendations incorporated into other guidelines.

The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained.

ETHICAL ISSUES IN RESEARCH

• Study design and ethics approval. According to COPE, “good research should be well adjusted, well-planned, appropriately designed, and ethically approved.
• Data analysis. It is the responsibility of the researcher to analyse the data appropriately.
• Authorship.
• Conflicts of interest.
• Redundant publication and plagiarism.

Enron collapsed and filed for bankruptcy in 2001, throwing Bradley and thousands of other employees out of work and turning the once valuable stock options into worthless pieces of paper. Several former Enron executives were sent to prison for their roles in the fraud. Lay died before he was sentenced.

(Reuters) – Jeffrey Skilling, the onetime chief of Enron Corp who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his conviction on charges stemming from the company’s spectacular collapse, has been released from federal custody, the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday.

* Jeffrey Skilling, who had been president and was chief executive for six months before resigning last August, bears “substantial responsibility” for the failure to monitor dealings between Enron and the partnerships.

Sherron Watkins (born August 28, 1959) is an American former Vice President of Corporate Development at the Enron Corporation.