Web Sites
Harvard University Institutional Review Board Web Sites:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (includes all non-medical professional schools and institutes):
http://cuhs.harvard.edu
Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Dental Medicine: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/orsp/human/human.html
Harvard School of Public Health:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hsc
Federal Web Sites:
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)(DHHS):
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/
The Belmont Report (Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects): http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm
Bioethics Resources on the Web (from the National Institutes of Health):
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics
IRB Guidebook:
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/irb/irb_guidebook.htm
FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration):
http://www.fda.gov
President's Council on Bioethics (formerly NBAC):
http://www.bioethics.gov
ORI (Office of Research Integrity):
http://ori.dhhs.gov/
Other Web Resources:
Nuremberg Code:
http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/Nuremberg_Code.htm
World Medical Assembly Declaration (Declaration of Helsinki):
http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm
Protection of Human Research Subjects: Computer-Based Training for Researchers (NIH, DHHS): http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
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Books, Articles, Journals
Books:
Hoagwood, K., Jensen, P. and Fisher, C. Ethical Issues in Mental Health Research with Children and Adolescents, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996.
Hornblum, Allan M. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, New York: Routledge, 1998.
Humphreys, Laud. Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places (Enlarged edition), New York: Aldine Publications, 1975.
Jones, James. Bad Blood, New York: Free Press, 1982.
Katz, Jay. Experimentation with Human Beings, New York: Russell Sage, 1972.
Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
Moreno, Joathan. Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans, New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999.
Protecting Human Research Subjects: Institutional Review Board Guidebook (1993), Washington, D.C.: Office for the Protection from Research Risks, NIH, PHS, DHHS.
Rosnow, R.L. & Rosenthal, R. Chapter 3, "Ethical Considerations," in Beginning Behavioral Research: A Conceptual Primer (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall: N.J., 1999. Pp. 57-79.
Sieber, Joan. Planning Ethically Responsible Research: A Guide for Students and Internal Review Boards, Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1992.
Sjoberg, Gideon. Ethics, Politics, and Social Research, Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Co, 1967.
Stanley, Barbara, & Joan Sieber (Eds.). Social Research on Children and Adolescents: Ethical Issues, Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1992.
Welsome, Eileen. The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, New York: The Dial Press, 1999.
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Journal article:
Allen, Charlotte. "Spies like us: When sociologists deceive their subjects, " Lingua Franca, November 1997. (available in CUHS office)
Journals
IRB: A review of human subjects research . Garrison, NY.: The Hastings Center.


