International ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects / prepared by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Geneva : CIOMS, 2002.

112 pages ; 24 cm

"This is the third in the series of international ethical guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects issued by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) since 1982.-- Introd.

1. Ethical justification and scientific validity of biomedical research involving human subjects -- 2. Ethical review committees -- 3. Ethical review of externally sponsored research -- 4. Individual informed consent -- 5. Obtaining informed consent: Essential information for prospective research subjects -- 6. Obtaining informed consent: Obligations of sponsors and investigators -- 7. Inducement to participate in research -- 8. Benefits and risks of study participation -- 9. Special limitations on risk when research involves individuals who are not capable of giving informed consent -- 10. Research in populations and communities with limited resources -- 11. Choice of control in clinical trials -- 12. Equitable distribution of burdens and benefits in the selection of groups of subjects in research -- 13. Research involving vulnerable persons -- 14. Research involving children -- 15. Research involving individuals who by reason of mental or behavioural disorders are not capable of giving adequately informed consent -- 16. Women as research subjects -- 17. Pregnant women as research subjects -- 18. Safeguarding confidentiality -- 19. Right of injured subjects to treatment and compensation -- 20. Strengthening capacity for ethical and scientific review of biomedical research -- 21. Ethical obligation of external sponsors to provide health-care services.