Fundamentos éticos e bioéticos das resoluções sobre a ética em pesquisa no Brasil

• Main Author: Ricardo Bins di Napoli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2007-01-01
• Series: Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy
• Subjects: Resolutions about ethics on research of CONEP (Brazil); Ethics; Bioethics of scientific research
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ethic/article/view/17431

<div>This lecture is aimed at examining the ethical and bioethical fundamentals of the Resolutions of the&nbsp;National Comission of Ethics on Research (Resolu&ccedil;&otilde;es da Comiss&atilde;o Nacional de &Eacute;tica em Pesquisa).&nbsp;For this purpose, firstly, a brief description of the National System of Ethics on Research (Sistema&nbsp;Nacional de &Eacute;tica em Pesquisa) created by the 196 Resolution of 1996 of the Health Ministry in Brazil.&nbsp;This system is composed of a national comission (Comiss&atilde;o Nacional de &eacute;tica em Pesquisa -CONEP)&nbsp;which controls, analyzes and regulates the protection of human beings in researches as a superior and&nbsp;definite instance of institutional committees (448 in September/2005) that are the basis of the whole&nbsp;ethical evaluation system of research projects involving human beings. This system also includes the&nbsp;National System of Information about Ethics on Research (Sistema Nacional de Informa&ccedil;&atilde;o sobre&nbsp;&Eacute;tica em Pesquisa) involving human beings (SISNEP). Secondly, it examines the moral principles,&nbsp;rules and values that head the process of the ethical evaluation activity of research projects sent to be&nbsp;registered and evaluated in this system. This extremely relevant system involves, nowadays, about&nbsp;5000 members in Brazil. To do this study, the resolutions of the National Comission, published from&nbsp;1996 to 2005 were analyzed, and the manual created by the National Comission in 2002 and dedicated&nbsp;to committees was also taken into account. It is also important to consider the reflection of the author&nbsp;on his personal experience at the Coordination of the local committee of ethics on research at the&nbsp;Federal University of Santa Maria (Comit&ecirc; de &Eacute;tica em pesquisa da Universidade Federal de Santa&nbsp;Maria) &ndash; Brazil.</div>