HLT1RAE Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: La Trobe University, Nazi Concentration Camps, National Health And Medical Research Council
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In the past, there were several examples of research that were considered to be unethical and in violation of human rights. Examples of unethical research can be traced back to world war 2. There was subsequent acknowledgement that unethical research was not uncommon in many other settings. This lead to the development of the nuremberg code: directives for human experimentation (1949): other key developments in developing key principles for ethical research include the world medical. Asse(cid:373)(cid:271)l(cid:455)(cid:859)s de(cid:272)laratio(cid:374) of helsi(cid:374)ki (cid:894)19(cid:1010)(cid:1009)(cid:895) a(cid:374)d the australia(cid:374) natio(cid:374)al health a(cid:374)d medi(cid:272)al esear(cid:272)h cou(cid:374)(cid:272)il(cid:859)s (nhmrc) first statement on human experimentation in 1966. Despite developing key principles, the application of these principles was left to researchers. Reports of abuses led to the development of human research ethics committees whose essential brief was to review all applications for proposed research to ensure ethical principles of research were upheld.
