Medicine and conscience: The debate on medical ethics and research in Germany 50 years after Nuremberg

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 373-381

  Wunder, Michael ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CRIME; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; NUREMBERG CODE; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; RESEARCH ETHICS;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NUREMBERG CODE;

CODES OF ETHICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, RESEARCH; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT;

EID: 0034152692     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.2000.0031     Document Type: Review

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