PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: World Medical Association, Nuremberg Code, Phosgene

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Gervais Yamb Desire

Document Summary

Part iii: research, global, and public health in bioethics. Research involving human beings (florencia luna and ruth macklin) Are the most significant cases that revealed the need for establishing guidelines in research ethics after the abuses during world war ii. Physicians conducting experiment under the nazis forced people to drink sea water to find out how long a person could survive without drinking fresh water (p. 457) 52 prisoners were exposed to phosgene gas, a biological warfare agent, to test possible antidotes (p. 457) Hundreds of people died in these experiments and many of those who survived were forced to live with painful physical or psychological scars (p. 457: nuremberg code and the declaration of helsinki. The nuremberg code (1949) is the consequence of the trial of doctors who conducted these experiments. According to the nuremberg code, the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential (p. 457)