jun 1, 1964 - The Declaration of Helsinki
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The Declaration was drafted by the World Medical Association and further developed the Nuremberg Code. A few changes were made; while the Nuremberg Code stated that consent was mandatory, the Declaration stated that it should be obtained wherever possible. The U.S. blocked bans on consent in all cases, research on institutionalized children, and prisoners (Jones, 2016 ). It set a moral code for researchers and physicians for human research and medical experimentation and insisted that the risk must not exceed the importance of the knowledge that would be gained (www.iupui.edu). Some issues that were addressed by the Declaration include: research should be based on results from animal experimentation, there should be an independent review of protocols, informed consent is necessary, research should be conducted by qualified researchers, and the risks should not exceed the benefits (ors.umkc.edu). "Even though the Declaration of Helsinki is the responsibility of the World Medical Association, the document should be considered the property of all humanity" stated a Brazilian forum in 2000.
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