Ethical Standards and Codes
Ethical Standards and Codes
Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International
Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International
The patient, H.M. as he has been widely known within the neuropsychological literature for more than five decades was Henry Molaison whose identity was made public only after his death in 2008. Luke Dittrich is an award winning journalist whose recently published book, Patient H.M. A Story of Memory, Madness…
The efforts of AHRP to hold the medical research community and government administrators accountable for unethical exploitation of vulnerable children in medical experiments conducted in violation of federal regulations.
Judgment at Nuremberg All sixteen Nazi doctors were found guilty; seven were sentenced to death and executed, nine were convicted and sentenced to prison, and seven were acquitted. Karl Gebhardt was found guilty of “crimes against humanity” and war crimes for his experimental atrocities at Ravensbrück and was hanged. His…
Why Has Columbia Expended So Much Effort to Avoid the Conclusion of Patient Harm?
THE ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (AHRP) 142 West End Ave, Suite 28P New York, NY 10023 212-595-8974 ahrp@researchprotection.org September 4, 2002 Michael Carome, MD Associate Director for Regulatory Affairs Office for Human Research Protections The Tower Building 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Re: Acute Respiratory Distress…
The universal right of Informed Consent to medical interventions has been recognized in US law since at least 1914. That year, the New York Court of Appeals established the right to informed consent to medical intervention in a case involving non-consensual surgery. Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital 105…