Your Library Session
Welcome to the Central Library. As part of the First Year Writing Seminar experience, your professor is including a library session that will introduce you to the Vanderbilt Libraries & some of the resources available to you.
All of the resources we'll be looking at today are linked from this course guide. Please let me know if you need any help at any point in your research process.
If you find that you need help with research in this, or any other course, you can request a research consultation with one of the librarians. The link to the online form is listed below.
Pam Morgan
Belmont Report
Based on the work of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1974-1978), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revised and expanded its regulations for the protection of human subjects 45 CFR part 46 in the late 1970's and early 1980's. In 1978, the Commission’s report “Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research” was published. It was named the Belmont Report, for the Belmont Conference Center, where the National Commission met when first drafting the report.
The Belmont Report explains the unifying ethical principles that form the basis for the National Commission’s topic-specific reports and the regulations that incorporate its recommendations. The Belmont Report identifies three fundamental ethical principles for all human subject research – respect for persons, beneficence, and justice. Those principles remain the basis for the HHS human subject protection regulations.
