Resolution
Deeply concerned that exploitation of people for
medical/research purposes isn’t addressed properly because not every person
sees eye to eye on the definition of exploitation. Realizing that the federal
policy for the protection of human subjects or more referred to as the “Common
Rule” has been passed since 1991 to ensure the safety of pregnant women, unborn
fetuses, prisoners etc…Encouraging the public to acknowledge exploitation on
human experimentation as an issue as well as encouraging physicians to help
improve how experimentation done o people. Affirming that that there should be
laws in developing countries that help protect the people in their country and
how researchers perform and who they conduct their experiments. Stressing that
although there are organizations and departments in the U.S that help protect
those that are under biomedical research these organizations and departments
don’t exist in developing countries. Taking into account that there is an
organization that helps protect people from unethical experimentation like the office
of human research protections (OHRP). 1. Propose that copies of existing drugs
should not be put onto the market; 2. Encourage physicians to not be part of
unethical trials; 3. Help organizations (donate/volunteer); 4. Inform students
who think of becoming physicians of the forms of exploitation that occurred in history
so similar trails won’t occur once again; 5. Acknowledge that SOJO’s Chemistry/Environmental
class brings up a form of exploitation in the case of Puerto Rican women who
were given a new form of a birth control pill as well as chemical and biological weapons tested in Japan and further lead to human experimentation.
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/ Office for Human Research Protection
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/commonrule/ Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (" Common Rule")
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/commonrule/ Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (" Common Rule")