Fifty years later: the significance of the nuremberg code

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 337, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 1436-1440

  Shuster, Evelyne ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALEXANDER, LEO; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECLARATION OF HELSINKI; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUREMBERG CODE; NUREMBERG TRIALS; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CONTROL; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNITED STATES;

ALEXANDER, LEO; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECLARATION OF HELSINKI; NUREMBERG CODE; NUREMBERG TRIALS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

CODES OF ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONALITY; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031566681     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199711133372006     Document Type: Article

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