Citation

Faden RR, Lederer SE, Moreno JD. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 1996; 276(20): 1667-1671.

Affiliation

The Bioethics Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md 21205-1996, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, American Medical Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8922454

Abstract

The Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE), established to review allegations of abuses of human subjects in federally sponsored radiation research, was charged with identifying appropriate standards to evaluate the ethics of cold war radiation experiments. One central question for ACHRE was to determine what role, if any, the Nuremberg Code played in the norms and practices of US medical researchers. Based on the evidence from ACHRE's Ethics Oral History Project and extensive archival research, we conclude that the Code, at the time it was promulgated, had little effect on mainstream medical researchers engaged in human subjects research. Although some clinical investigators raised questions about the conduct of research involving human beings, the medical profession did not pursue this issue until the 1960s.

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