Medicine & Health · Medical Ethics & Law
A topic within Medical Ethics & Law, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.
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World Medical Association
Sets out ethical principles for medical research on human subjects, distinguishing therapeutic from non-therapeutic research and requiring free informed consent, extending the Nuremberg Code into ongoing professional self-regulation.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Henry K. Beecher
Documents twenty-two published studies in which patients were harmed or put at risk without meaningful consent, arguing that unethical research was ordinary practice in respectable institutions rather than an aberration.
link checked 17 Sept 2026