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
Informed Consent: The Subject’s Right to Know Here’s what you should ask before you decide to give your informed consent to research. A 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), “To Err is Human,” brought to light the magnitude of preventable deaths resulting from medical errors The IOM report…
The Wall Street Journal reports: “The FDA is allowing Northfield [Laboratories, Inc] to test its blood substitute without the consent of the trauma patients, who often are unconscious.”
Some thoughts on the Nuremberg Code’s 75th anniversary by Ash, a Student of History… >> Go to Nuremberg75.com to get a free copy of The Nuremberg Code – Commemorative Edition << The post was cross-posted at Bailiwick News Doctors’ Trial: Never Forget For the past nine months I’ve been pseudonymously serializing…
The Nuremberg Code [from Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. Nuremberg, October 1946 – April 1949. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O, 1949 – 1953.] Permissible Medical Experiments The great weight of the evidence before us is to the effect that certain types…
Is it progress when US government sponsored medical research moves from deliberately infecting Guatemalan men with syphylis to designing experiments that kill premature babies?
Experimental Vaccine tests on minors are illegal in Russia.