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
BEWARE of the powerful influence of institutional medical research. They have pushed hard to get the federal research. . . .
The wonders of mother’s breastmilk continue to amaze scientists. “Mother’s milk is a comestible marvel. It’s packed with nutrients and other benefits for babies’ health. A steady stream of research has linked breastfeeding to lower risk of infection, obesity, diabetes and respiratory disease in infants.” Unravelling the mysteries of microRNA…
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…
"… it’s appalling — that, at the same time as the United States was prosecuting Nazi doctors for crimes against humanity, the U.S. government was supporting research that placed human subjects at enormous risk.”
1999: Experiments on the most vulnerable The research community has consistently demonstrated its disregard for individual patient-subjects’ safety. 1999: One hundred babies are test subjects of the drug, Propulsid One hundred infants were enrolled by Dr. Susan Orenstein at Children’s Hospital (Pittsburgh) in a clinical trial testing Propulsid for…
August 20, 1947: Judgment at Nuremberg: 16 out of 23 doctors were found guilty of crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg verdict also set forth the parameters of “Permissible Medical Experiments” known as the Nuremberg Code. The Nuremberg Code laid the foundation for biomedical ethics mandating that medical experiments conducted on human…