The Belmont Report defines Respect for persons in the context of research in terms of respecting their autonomy:
“To respect autonomy is to give weight to the autonomous person’s opinions and choices while refraining from obstructing his or her actions.”—Belmont Report.
How do you define respect?
https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-report/
About the Author
Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.
