HLTH 3098 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Smallpox Vaccine, Edward Jenner, Nuremberg Trials
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Throughout the history of scientific research there have been ethical concerns regarding the use of humans as research subjects. For example, early medical researchers such as edward. Jenner (1789), who tested smallpox vaccine, claude bernard (1865), who developed ethical maxims regarding human research, louis pasteur (1885), who tested the rabies vaccine, and. Walter reed (1900), who studied yellow fever, all struggled with these ethical concerns. Modern concern regarding the ethics of research involving human subjects developed as the result of the nazi regime"s atrocities during world war ii. Trials following the war, 23 nazi doctors were charged with crimes against humanity. As part of the verdict, the court enumerated rules for "permissible medical experiments," now known as the "nuremberg code. " That the benefits of the research outweigh risks. That the subjects have the ability to terminate participation in the research at anytime.
