Human Subject Law and Legal Definition
Pursuant to 49 CFR 11.102 [Title 49 – Transportation; Subtitle A -- Office of the Secretary of Transportation; Part 11 -- Protection of Human Subjects] human subject means “a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or identifiable private information. Intervention includes both physical procedures by which data are gathered (for example, venipuncture) and manipulations of the subject or the subject's environment that are performed for research purposes. Interaction includes communication or interpersonal contact between investigator and subject. "Private information" includes information about behavior that occurs in a context in which an individual can reasonably expect that no observation or recording is taking place, and information which has been provided for specific purposes by an individual and which the individual can reasonably expect will not be made public (for example, a medical record). Private information must be individually identifiable (i.e., the identity of the subject is or may readily be ascertained by the investigator or associated with the information) in order for obtaining the information to constitute research involving human subjects.”
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Related Legal Terms
- American Convention on Human Rights
- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor [Department of State]
- Bureau of Human Resources [Department of State]
- Chief Human Capital Officers Council [CHCOC]
- Core Academic Subjects
- Corpus Humanum Non Recipit Estimationem
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
- Crime against Humanity
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Cruel and Inhuman Treatment
