PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 48: Nuremberg Code, Belmont Report, Nuremberg
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Present day codes evolved slowly over the 20th century. The most influential points of the nuremberg code: If it may do harm, we must have concluded that results cannot be obtained in any other way. Study must be discontinued if it becomes harmful. Conducted by u. s. public health service--funded by our government. Told they would get free healthcare and free medical examinations. The researchers told them other doctors were wrong. Stopped when it was discovered by the public. They spread the disease to significant others, and some of them died too. Said that in order to do research, you have to go through the national. Commission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and. 13 principles in all that fall into these categories: Three basic principles of ethical human research: respect for persons, beneficence, justice. This is why we cannot use prisoners because they cannot choose to participate and cannot walk away.
