Category
page 1Clinical research ethics
informed consent
process by means of which a research participant agrees to be the subject of research
Declaration of Helsinki
declaration from 1964 of World Medical Association comprising a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation
J. Marion Sims
American physician and gynecologist (1813-1883)
Belmont Report
report summarizing ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects
unethical human experimentation
human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics

Anarcha Westcott
african-American slave experimented on by physician J. Marion Sims
institutional review board
hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects
Pit of despair
device used by Harry Harlow to study rhesus monkeys
unethical human experimentation in the United States
history of unethical human experimentation occurring within the United States of America