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.

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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")