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Service-Learning Research Primer (PDF)
Historical Overview
Schneider (n.d.) states that “the final developments that produced our current method of protecting human research subjects were the result of historical events in the twentieth century” (www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/G504.dir/irbhist.html). These included such high profile ethically problematic research cases as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Brandt, 1978; Rothman, 1982), and the research in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (Schneider, n.d.). The major outcome of the Nazi atrocities was the adoption of the Nuremberg Code (see Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10, 1949), while the Tuskegee Study prompted the Belmont Report in order to protect human subjects (see The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1979). Both of these reports produced many of guidelines and regulations that now guide researchers who conduct studies that involve using human research participants. These include (but are not limited to): minimal risk to the subject; obtaining the informed consent of the subject; the right of the subject to withdraw from the study at any point; any benefits from the research must be greater than its associated risks; the study must be conducted by qualified individuals; and the study must be able to be stopped at any point during the course of the research.
