Relevant Laws And Legal Authority - 1277 Words

Relevant laws and legal authority The conduct of biomedical research that involves the human subjects deals with many ethical and legal issues and these issues must be handled by the law to make sure transparency in the research. The legal issues have concerned lawyers, policy makers, researchers, philosophers, scientists, and clinicians for many years and the end result was the formulation of laws in conductance of human subject research.(Kapp, 2006). In July 12, 1974 the National Research Act was signed into law and the organization of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects in research was founded and they issued a report to protect the human subject, commonly called the Belmont Report (Kenneth John Ryan, April 18,†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¢ Institutional Review Boards (IRB) †¢ HIPAA †¢ Research on the Internet †¢ Psychological Research Online †¢ British Psychological Society All above laws and regulations provide a detailed protocol to conduct the human research and how the privacy and confidentiality of the human subject can be protected. (Beskow et al., 2012; Perfetto et al., 2015) Relevant Economic, Political, and Social Influences and Impacts The human subject research has a big impact on the economic, political, social outcomes in a community. The first political and social impact on the human subject research was development of the Belmont report in the early 1970s, following widely exposed cases of research abuse in human research. The researchers have helped in the economic and political growth of many countries on the basis of evidence based research. The human subject research has faced many ups and downs and many researchers have used the human subjects in developing countries and conducted the research without informed consent and did not give them benefits after the research had been published. David et al, 2014 has discussed in his article, â€Å"the Practical and Political Problems With a Global Research Tax†. Angela Ballantyne (2010) also claims, there should be a global tax on the international research and this global tax would prevent the