Comments on: The Evolution of Informed Consent: Human Experimentation in the United States During the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries http://viraginity.net/2009/12/02/the-evolution-of-informed-consent-human-experimentation-in-the-united-states-during-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries/ Wed, 19 May 2010 06:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: viraginity http://viraginity.net/2009/12/02/the-evolution-of-informed-consent-human-experimentation-in-the-united-states-during-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries/#comment-214 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:14:25 +0000 http://viraginity.net/?p=450#comment-214 You’ll want to use the citation guidelines for a blog. Dunno if you’re using APA or MLA format (prolly MLA), but the Purdue site has details on both: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ I’d discourage you from using my paper as a source, though. I cite primary sources in my biblio that would look better for you than a personal blog. The Belmont Report is a Big Freaking Deal — don’t neglect it!

There’s an available (free) online human subjects training offered by the NIH that investigators are mandated to take (I took it recently, as I accepted a seat on an IRB) that has a time line of HRS guideline developments in the US that could be of use to you: http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php?l=3 The useful part would be in the intro section.

My research was limited 19th and 20th century developments in the US; the paper was for a US History II course. Don’t have much in the way of data before then. If you need sources on the history of HSRs before then, or from abroad, you’ll need to keep looking. I’d bet good money that there was a significant amount of exploitation of human subjects post-Renaissance in Europe. Unit 731 in Japan (and the deal the US cut with the perpetrators in exchange for chemical and bio weapons data during the Cold War) and the Nazi biomed experiments would be useful to include. I didn’t dedicate much time to military experimentation in the US, either. Cold War radiation experiments are a subject that would warrant a paper of their own.

Best of luck. Let me know if I can be of any more use, and I’d like to read your finished work!

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]]> By: Maynard S. Clark http://viraginity.net/2009/12/02/the-evolution-of-informed-consent-human-experimentation-in-the-united-states-during-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries/#comment-213 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:44:11 +0000 http://viraginity.net/?p=450#comment-213 How may I cite this website in a paper? Have you other references to HSR prior to 1800? I’d send you my paper, but were any FORMAL ethics codes developed before that time?

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