Health, medicine and science in the universal declaration of human rights

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 127-142

  Claude, Richard Pierre ^a,b   Issel, Bernardo W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Canal House 223 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN RIGHTS;

EID: 0032456320     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065304     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. ECOSOC Resolution 1/5, February 16, 1946.
2. United Nations, These Rights and Freedoms (United Nations: Department of Public Information, 1950), pp. 4-5.
3. Other members represented Australia, Belgium, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Chile, Egypt, India, Iran, Panama, the Philippines, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Yugoslavia.
4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, G.A. Res. 217A (III), U.N. GAOR Res. 71, U.N. Doc. A/810 (1948); Preamble/Proclamation.
5. R.N. Proctor, "Nazi Doctors, Racial Medicine, and Human Experimentation," in: (eds.) G. J. Annas and M. A. Grodin, The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code, Human Rights in Human Experimentation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 17-31.
6. In November, 1947 the War Crimes Commission said its report "was designed to serve the specific purpose of contributing to the task of the Commission on Human Rights in preparing an international bill of human rights..." United Nations Commission on Human Rights Drafting Committee, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/W.20, p. vi. That it was so received is evidenced by René Cassin's statement to fellow members of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) drafting committee considering a prohibition of torture (Article 5) that doctors have no "right to inflict suffering upon other human beings without their consent, even for ends that may appear 'good.'" U.N. Doc. E/CN4/AC.1/SR.3, p. 13.
7. United Nations, see note 2, p. 6.