What is wrong with the physician charter on professionalism

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 17-19

  Ross, Lainie Friedman ^a  

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EID: 33748497624     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0066     Document Type: Short Survey

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2. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-12 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978); citations here are to a version available at www.cdc.gov/od/ads/ethcodes/belm-eng.pdf.
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6. National Commission, The Belmont Report, 4.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
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16. Beauchamp and Childress also argue for this change. See The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 177.
17. The Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Ibid., 178.
18. Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law number 10, volume II (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948); available at www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/codeptx.htm.