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Recommended: Discuss the role of the Institutional Review Board (IRB)

The IRB, or institutional review board, serves to either approve or deny biomedical and behavioral research. The IRB was created after several cases of inhumane treatment or improperly conducting or performing experiments. Therefore the IRB was created to help regulate and prevent such catastrophes from happening again. However, much has changed now. I believe that there is an issue with regulations and procedures that govern research regarding human subjects. There needs to be smart, streamlined regulation rather than numerous regulations that prevent creative experiments or tests that may push the boundaries, within reason, to provide knowledge. Furthermore, certain regulations by the IRB are extraneous. This is why there needs to be a change to smarter regulation within the IRB.

The IRB has certain regulations that I deem as unneeded on. One policy I disagree with is what is known as “The Common Rule”. The regulation within The Common Rule states that, “14 other Federal departments and agencies joined HHS in adopting a uniform set of rules for the protection of human subjects”. I believe this is bound to slow progress down. With so many different agencies involved it …show more content…

If the IRB makes a set of rules for individuals it essentially creates a boundary line that one cannot cross. While this boundary line was created in order to prevent horrible occurrences from happening such as the Guatemala syphilis experiment in which 1500 Guatemalans were purposefully given syphilis. These rules and boundaries are now obsolete and need to be changed or removed. We are in an age where human rights are in place and effectively protect those that these IRB regulations were created to protect. In history huge discoveries were made when the limits were pushed and creative thinking was employed. Now it is time the rues surrounding and governing these studies and experiments to

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