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National Bioethics Advisory Commission Reports and Papers

These are extensive and multi-volumed NBAC Reports and Commissioned Papers on Research Involving Human Subjects from October 1995 through October 2001.

The OEC maintains full versions of two reports: Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants, and Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders That May Affect Decisionmaking Capacity.

Four other summary or extracted documents also appear here.

Ethical and Policy Issues in International Research: Clinical Trials in Developing Countries

An Ethical Framework For Biological Samples Policy

Letter of Transmittal to the President National Bioethics Advisory Commission

National Bioethics Advisory Commission Staff and Consultants

The several remaining volumes of the commission's reports may be found as PDF downloads at the Georgetown University site for National Bioethics Advisory Commission Publications

• Report on Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants

  The table of contents and links to individual sections of an August 2001 two volume report on research involving human participants by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, or NBAC.

• Report on Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders That May Affect Decisionmaking Capacity

  Table of contents for the December 1998 report on Research Involving Persons with Mental Disorders That May Affect Decisionmaking Capacity, December 1998.

• An Ethical Framework For Biological Samples Policy (Commissioned Paper)

  A commissioned paper from the 1999 NBAC Report on Research Involving Human Biological Materials.

• Executive Summary of Issues in International Research: Clinical Trials in Developing Countries, April 2001

  The executive summary of this NBAC report discusses the ethical issues that arise when research that is subject to U.S. regulation is sponsored or conducted in developing countries, where local technical skills and other key resources are in relatively scarce supply.

• NBAC Functions and Staff List

  The intended functions of NBAC, and a list of the staff as of the commission's inception in 1995.

• Letter of Transmittal to the President (January 1999 - Mental Disorders)

  Facsimile of a January 1999 letter sent to announce the completetion of the report on subjects with mental disorders.

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