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The judgment by the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg laid down 10 standards to which physicians must conform when carrying out experiments on human subjects in a new code that is now accepted worldwide.
The Nuremberg Code. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior ...
Although the Nuremberg Code is often cited as the origin of the modern physician’s obligation to obtain informed consent, legal precedents enforcing patients’ rights actually predate Nuremberg. In France, legal requirements for consent were established in 1910, and were reinforced by the French Supreme Court in 1942. 1
THE NUREMBERG CODE. 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior ...
The Nuremberg trials paved the way for contemporary war crimes trials for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and now the International Criminal Court. This module assumes students have already studied World War II and its effects and aftermaths, including a general introduction to the Holocaust and Nuremburg.
Of the three principal criminal defenses raised at the Nuremberg Trials-the defenses of act of state, superior orders, and ex post facto law-two were expressly rejected in the Nuremberg Charter, and all three were rejected in the prosecution's arguments and later in the Tribunal's Judgment.
17 mar 2023 · Nuremberg Trials Materials. The Georgetown Law Library has two sets of print documents and proceedings from the Nuremberg trials, which are shelved on the third floor of the Williams Library. Researchers also may wish to utilize the free online collections of digitized trial materials listed below, which provide access to additional documents ...
