(historical publication)
The international guidelines for biomedical research involving human subjects that are now proposed are the results of a study initiated in 1976 by CIOMS in collaboration with WHO. They were drawn up after a series of extensive consultations with individual experts, representing a wide variety of backgrounds, and are based on the replies to a questionnaire received from national health administrations and medical faculties in many developing countries. The original version of the guidelines received, during 1980, the benefit of the comments of an ad hoc WHO/CIOMS working group, of the WHO Advisory Committee on Medical Research, and of a CIOMS Round Table Conference held in Mexico City.