Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Randomized Controlled Trial, The Control Group, World Medical Association

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Ken Kirkwood

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Nuremberg code (1946: drawn up as part of the judgement against physicians who conducted medical experiments on inmates in nazi concentration camps. Human subjects give voluntary informed consent before participating in research. There should be an appropriate ratio of benefits to risks in the research. World medical association (wma) 1964 o o. Added 3 important points to the nuremberg code: The distinction between therapeutic research (whose aim is to benefit the patient) and non-therapeutic research (whose aim is to generate scientific knowledge) An institutional mechanism should be in place to ensure that the main ethical principles were followed. The provision for proxy consent by family members when subjects such as children could not consent on their own. Shortly after the helsinki declaration, henry beecher published an article in the new england journal of medicine exposing. Congress created the national commission for the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research o.