Composition and functionality of ethics committees in our country: Institutional examples; [Ülkemizde etik kurullarin yapisi ve i̇şlevselliǧne i̇lişkin kurumsal örnekler]
Abstract
Turkey's first Research Ethics Committee was founded in 1986 at the Faculty of Medicine of Hacettepe University. Then Ministry of Health Published Drug Researches Regulations in 1993. These regulations concerning the ethical principles for the medical researches on human beings had been prepared. Some of the ethics committies in medical faculties of universities and educational hospitals were founded because of the same concerns. Looking at the ethics committies from a practical view, the concerns that have been carried out within the frame of theories have not observedly found their reflections in practice. Lack of publications on ethics committies' foundations and activities, point out that these publications aren't enough for handling this issue. Therefore to provide more reliable suggestions for resolving the issues the number of these kinds of publications should he increased. In this study, we want to enlighten the "Adventure of Ehics Committies in Our Country" by studying ethics committies' foundations and activities in a newly founded innovative medical faculty of a university.