Belmont’s Ethical Malpractice

December 1, 2010

“The language of the biomedical model lends itself to ethical malpractice.” With these words, Albert Reiss condemned the 1978 Belmont Report. The report, he complained in a 1979 essay, reduced “people” to “subjects” and required procedures – such as risk-benefit analysis – that were inapplicable to research that did not resemble medical experiments. (Bioethics Forum)