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
Whose children are to be selected for morally and legally impermissible medical experiments?
The Declaration of Helsinki defines ethical research: “In any medical study, every patient – including those of a control group, if any – should be assured of the best proven diagnostic and therapeutic method.” (1964; 1996) That standard for ethical research was reaffirmed by the World Medical Association in 2000:…
BEWARE of the powerful influence of institutional medical research. They have pushed hard to get the federal research. . . .
The National Heart Blood and Lung Institute (NHBLI) has embarked on a far-ranging, dubious unethical experimental research paradigm that puts vulnerable, (often) critically ill patients at increased risk of harm; merely to document the resulting harm. Thousands of patients accross the United States are being subjected to experiments that put…
Newly obtained documents from the SUPPORT oxygen experiment on tiny premature babies reveal far more extensive medical ethics violations. . . .
Who determines whether a medical intervention falls within the parameters of an experiment? Historical case is examined by Maria Rentetzi, who addresses the issue in “The Women Radium Dial Painters as Experimental Subjects (1920-1990), or; What Counts as Human Experimentation?” She notes that the plight of the women and their…