Statement of ethical principles

Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects The World Medical Association has developed the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles to provide guidance to physicians and other participants in medical research involving human subjects. Medical research involving human subjects includes research on identifiable human material or identifiable data. 

In 1964, the World Medical Association established a statement of ethical principles to provide guidance to physicians and other participants in biomedical research involving humans. It was developed to correct the perceived deficiencies in the Nuremberg Code, especially on physician-led research with patients. The Declaration governs international research ethics and defines rules for research combined with clinical care and non-therapeutic research . The Declaration of Helsinki was revised in 1975, 1983, 1989 and 1996 and is the basis for GCP used today. A summarised version of the Declaration of Helsinki is shown in Table 6.1. 

Ethical codes and statements of ethical principles can be read as sets of rules. However, merely to follow a set of ethical mles is not necessarily to act ethically. To really act ethically we need to be motivated by sincere intentions and more particularly to act on the basis of experience. Engineers know the importance of experience in their technical work, and the irreplaceable value of practical experience has been expressed well by Vernon Watkins in the opening lines of his poem Fisherman [10] ... 

Royal Academy of Engineering Statement of Ethical Principles... 

The Royal Academy of Engineering, in collaboration with Engineering Council (UK) and a number of the leading professional engineering institutions, has created a Statement of Ethical Principles to which it believes all professional engineers and related bodies should subscribe. 

This Statement of Ethical Principles sets a standard to which members of the engineering profession should aspire in their working habits and relationships. The Statement is fully compatible with the principles in the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser s Universal Ethical Code for Scientists, with an emphasis on matters of particular relevance to engineers. The values on which it is based should apply in every situation in which professional engineers exercise their judgement. 

Royal Academy of Engineering, Statement of Ethical Principles (RAE, London, 2007)... 

It was noted in Chap. 1 that the Royal Academy of Engineering s Statement of Ethical Principles, in common with other modem professional ethical codes, is concerned with what should be done. This is also a concern of the Rule, but the... 

Royal Academy of Engineering. (2011). Statement of ethical principles. Retrieved 11 Mar 2013, from http //www.engc.oig.uk/ecukdocuments/intemet/document%201ibrary/Statement %20of%20Ethical%20Ptinciples.pdf... 

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