Institutional Review Board at Louisiana College

Principles of Ethical Practice

1. The Nurenburg Code -
   Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council. Law No. 10, Vol 2, pp. 181-182. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/references/nurcode.htm)

2. Declaration of Helsinki per the World Medical Association -
   The Declaration of Helsinki (Document 17.C) is an official policy document of the World Medical Association, the global representative body for physicians. It was first adopted in 1964 (Helsinki, Finland) and revised in 1975 (Tokyo, Japan), 1983 (Venice, Italy), 1989 (Hong Kong), 1996 (Somerset-West, South Africa) and 2000 (Edinburgh, Scotland). Note of clarification on Paragraph 29 added by the WMA General Assembly, Washington 2002 (http://www.wma.net/e/policy/b3.htm)

3. The Belmont Report –
   Ethical principles of research for the protection of human subject research per the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, April 18,1979. (http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.htm)