C O N F I D E N T I A L

Item 3247

           (3)  The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality

of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or  engages in the experiment.  It is a personal duty and responsibility   which may not be delegated to another with impunity.

 

       b. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.

 

       c. The number of volunteers used shall be kept at a minimum consis- tent with item b, above.

 

       d. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results

of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the

disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will

justify the performance of the experiment.

 

       e. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all un-necessary physical and mental suffering and injury.

 

       f. No experiment should be conducted where there is a prior reason

to believe that death or disabling injury will occur.

 

       g. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that de- termined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by

the experiment.

 

       h. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possi- bilities of injury, disability, or death.

 

       i. The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified persons. The highest degree of skill and care should be required through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage in   the experiment.

 

       j. During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the  physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible.

 

       k. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment    is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject.

         (1)  The established policy, which prohibits the use of prisoners of war in human experimentation, is continued and they will not be used under any circumstances.

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