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Directly benefit subjects.
2. Advance the development of a medical product necessary to the military.
3. Be carried out under all laws and regulations (i.e., Emergency Research Consent Waiver) including those pertinent to the FDA (McManus, et al. 2005)
The necessity of meeting the conditions of 'informed consent' is crucial since grave ethical ramifications can ensure if this condition were violated. Possibilities of this occurring are anticipated and prevented by an ethics committee or Institutional Review Board.
For informed consent to be legitimate, three are needed: disclosure, capacity and voluntariness (Faden & Beauchamp, 1986).
1. disclosure, - the first is that the researchers disclose all necessary information in a comprehensible and comprehensive way without any undue pressure not from researcher or from anyone else
2. Capacity - The potential participant has the capacity to both understand the given information and follow through making a reasoned...
His cognitive abilities are up to the situation
3. Voluntariness -- there is no coercion, manipulation, or undue influence involved. The person feels utterly free to make his own decision.
Notorious historical studies such as the Milgram experiment and the Tuskegee syphilis study that were not only unscrupulous but also indelibly traumatized the participants have laid the backdrop and led to requirements for informed consent. To deter such violation of human subjects from recurring, the ethical research procedures for scientific studies have intensified over the last decades and the details of informed consent have become an intrinsic part of the procedure of any study.
Sources
Faden, R.R., & Beauchamp, T.L. (1986). A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press.
McManus, J.; S.G. Mehta, et al. (2005). Informed consent and ethical issues in military medical research. Academic Emergency Medicine 12 (11): 1120 -- 1126.
Sources
Faden, R.R., & Beauchamp, T.L. (1986). A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press.
McManus, J.; S.G. Mehta, et al. (2005). Informed consent and ethical issues in military medical research. Academic Emergency Medicine 12 (11): 1120 -- 1126.
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