PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Randomized Controlled Trial, The Control Group, World Health Organization
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The 2 values that shape medical science is knowledge and beneficence. Nazi doctor josef mengele liked to study twins. Collected kids from concentration camps and he measured them, did, performed features, performed cross transfusions, transplanted genitals and other organs and he also created artificial siamese twins. He did comparative studies where he would infect one child then would kill both for an autopsy: tuskegee study- in 1932 they began a 40-year study where they took 600 poor black men and. 400 of them had syphilis when they entered the study. Nuremberg code- a set of minimal ethical principles meant to govern all scientific experiments involving humans. Princilples-declaration of helsinki, embraced by the world medical association (wma) in 1964, the. 1979 belmont report established by the congressionally established national commission for the. Protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research and the 1993 international guidelines for biomedical human research created by the world health organization (who) and the.
