Research Involving Human Participants

Office for Human Research Participant Protection and the Institutional Review Board, BOSTON COLLEGE

Policies and Procedures for Use of Human Subjects in Research, BOSTON COLLEGE

Information on HIPAA and the Privacy Rule, BOSTON COLLEGE OHRPP

Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), US Department of Health and Human Services

The Belmont Report, April 18, 1979

Nuremberg Code, Directives for Human Experimentation

Declaration of Helsinki, World Medical Association

Oath of Hippocrates

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 45, Public Welfare, Department of Health and Human Services, Part 46 - Protection of Human Subjects (45 CFR 46)

Categories of Research That May Be Reviewed by the IRB through an Expedited Review

IRB Guidebook, Office for Human Research Protections, US DHHS

Protection of Participants in Behavioral and Social Science Research

National Institutes of Health Certificates of Confidentiality Kiosk

Research on Human Specimens: Are You Conducting Research Using Human Subjects?

National Science Foundation, Grant Policy Manual, section concerning human subjects with links to NSF version of the Common Rule (45CFR 690) and guidance information

Protection of Human Subjects in Research, Department of Education, concludes link to the Common Rule for Dept. of Education 34CFR97

U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, information on protection of human subjects including link to the Common Rule for Dept. of Justice (28CFR46)

Summary of Human Subjects Protection Issues Related to Large Sample Surveys, prepared by Joan Sieber for Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice

U.S. Department of Commerce version of the Common Rule

Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, American Psychological Association

American Sociological Association Code of Ethics

Ethical Standards of AERA, American Educational Research Association

Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants, NAP

Ethical Issues in Research Involving Human Participants, 1989-1998 Bibliography prepared by the National Library of Medicine

Bioethics Resources on the Web, National Institutes of Health

Protecting Human Subjects, U.S. Department of Energy

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)

Online Ethics Instructional Modules
   Special Issues in Conducting Human Genetic Research
   Ethical Challenges in Research with Human Biological Materials
   Ethics of Research with Subjects Who Have Dementia
   The Ethics of Research with Children
   The Ethics of Research with Human Subjects Who Are Mentally Ill
   The Ethics of Research on Vulnerable Populations

Research Ethics Modules, North Carolina State University
   Research with Human Participants

Essays for Scientists and Subjects Project
   A Brief Introduction to Informed Consent in Research with Human Subjects
   Ethical Issues in Genetic Research: Outline and Bibliography
   Therapeutic Obligation in Medical Research
   Vulnerable Subjects