Medical Research Ethics

Ethical Standards and Codes

ByVera Sharav October 26, 2006September 30, 2016

Ethical Standards and Codes

Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Committee Report & Public Briefing, Oct. 3, 2002

The Hippocratic Oath

The Nuremberg Code

Declaration of Helsinki

The Belmont Report

Additional Codes and Declarations Relevant to the Health Professions:
Amnesty International

Federal Policy for Protection of Human Subjects: 45 CFR 46

Unethical Experiments

1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill
August 1, 2015September 17, 2021

1998: Doing Harm: Research on the Mentally Ill, a prize winning research expose by The Boston Globe In November, 1998, the first of a four-part series by Robert Whitaker and Dolores Kong shed light on the abusive research parameters of non-therapeutic experiments conducted on mentally incapacitated individuals. They focused on several…

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Unethical Experiments

Blood substitute`a disaster’ in trial Northfield still plans toseek FDA approval
December 20, 2006November 21, 2014

American medicine is fast descending into lethal medicine thanks to FDA officials who lend the government seal of approval to drugs and experiments that kill.

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August 20, 1947: Judgment at Nuremberg
November 18, 2014May 11, 2018

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…

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2005: IOM Committee Considers Return to Prison Research
August 1, 2015September 17, 2021

Today’s New York Times Magazine cover story, Planet of the Retired Chimpanzees By Charles Siebert, reports that chimpanzees who have served as subjects in biomedical research can look forward to being set free in one of 12 specially built chimp sanctuaries the prettiest places in all of Florida. This is…

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Unethical Experiments

Pres. Obama Orders Investigation of Guatamalan Syphilis Experiment
November 29, 2010November 21, 2014

President Obama ordered a review by his bioethics commission following the revelations that yet another experiment sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, was even more odious than the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. In the recently uncovered experiment, unwitting Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis by the same doctor who…

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AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM
October 26, 2006September 19, 2015

AHRP Letter to Editor re: ARDS published NEJM Fri, 11 Jul 2003 A truncated version of a Letter to the editor submitted by John H. Noble, Jr., PhD and Vera Sharav appears in the current July 10, 2003, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Note: On April 3,…

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