Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Phase 2, Golden Rule, Deontological Ethics
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The nuremberg code 1946 was against the physicans who tortured patients in concentration camps in nazi germany. The code consisted of 10 ethical principles: main one was the requirement that human subjects give voluntary informed consent before participating in a research. Another important principle was that there should be an appropriate ratio of benefits to risks taken in the research. 2) there should be an institutional mechanism to ensure that the main ethical principles were applied: provision by family members when subjects such as children participated. Due to the 30 years of expirementing on poor african american men with syphilis the. Congress created the national commission for the protection of human subjects issued the. If the physician is also a researcher, then he should try to find a delicate balance between his two obligations and promote safety of the subjects/patients. Clinical trials on human subjects consist of 4 phase approval process: