IHS 3112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Cloning, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Syphilis
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1946: military tribunal for war crimes. 1949: wma (world medical association) intentional code of medical ethics. 1960s: cardiopulmonary resuscitation raises ethical dilemmas. 1964: who guidelines for conducting biomedical research. 1968: harvard ad hoc committee on brain death. 1974: national research act (nra) of 1974. 1978: commission for the study of ethical problems. 1983: first durable power of attorney legislation, compassion and choices. 1990: patient self-determination act, nancy cruzman feeding tube removal, kevorkian illegally assists terminally ill patients in suicide, timothy quill and prescription for death, final exit and freedom of speech. 1994: oregon-physician assisted suicide legal, michigan-physician assisted suicide illegal. 1996: health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa, dolly the sheep cloned, fourteenth amendment and terminally ill. 1997: physician-assisted suicide, kevorkian charged with murder, supreme court- states may enact assisted suicide laws. 1998: oregon voters reaffirm death with dignity act, kevorkian administers lethal injection, ballot physician-assisted suicide defeated. 1999: kevorkian convicted of second-degree man, patients receive lethal doses of medication.
