Talk:Nuremberg Code

message: "The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent"
So in the case of experimentation upon children, such as in pediatric clinical trials of a new drug, does a typical protocol designate the parent or guardian as "the person involved"? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 23:04, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pediatric experimentation? 

message: What is it about this that is not representative of a worldwide view. Keep in mind this page is just about the code, not about what alternatives exist. The page can be quite reputable without noting every alternative that exists, however, if you can think of other put them in See also section. I am removing the tag because it was not discussed. Ansell Review my progress! 00:08, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Worldview tag

message: Should we discuss this?
Abstract
The Nuremberg Code drafted at the end of the Doctor's trial in Nuremberg 1947 has been hailed as a landmark document in medical and research ethics. Close examination of this code reveals that it was based on the Guidelines for Human Experimentation of 1931. The resemblance between these documents is uncanny. It is unfortunate that the authors of the Nuremberg Code passed it off as their original work. There is evidence that the defendants at the trial did request that their actions be judged on the basis of the 1931 Guidelines, in force in Germany. The prosecutors, however, ignored the request and tried the defendants for crimes against humanity, and the judges included the Nuremberg Code as a part of the judgment. Six of ten principles in Nuremberg Code are derived from the 1931 Guidelines, and two of four newly inserted principles are open to misinterpretation. There is little doubt that the Code was prepared after studying the Guidelines, but no reference was made to the Guidelines, for reasons that are not known. Using the Guidelines as a base document without giving due credit is plagiarism; as per our understanding of ethics today, this would be considered unethical. The Nuremberg Code has fallen by the wayside; since unlike the Declaration of Helsinki, it is not regularly reviewed and updated. The regular updating of some ethics codes is evidence of the evolving nature of human ethics.
Ref: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731859
Abhijeet Safai (talk) 04:40, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This reference can be added in the main article - Dr. Abhijeet Safai (talk) 06:42, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Nuremberg Code-A critique. 

message: Hi Dhk0308, very nice job on the article! I liked how you dove into the prewar German Medical Association and gave us the history of the that and the platforms that existed in that organization. I think you could have maybe went more into this part of the edit,  "referring National Socialism as applied biology". I was a little confused if you meant that National Socialism was called applied biology. I think it would be nice if you could combine the authorship section into the background section maybe. I think that would be helpful for organization purposes. Overall I think you touched on all the important points and presented it in an digestible manner!Jshamul (talk) 22:38, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! Really enjoyed reading your article, and especially like the "See also" section at the end which provides people links to related Wikipedia pages. An area for improvement is that some parts of the "Significance" section seem to be not as objective. For example, more examples and elaborations could be given for the "lack of clarity" and "uncompromising language" of the code to explain the point more fully, because just stating that seems rather unsubstantiated. Reading the article made me also wonder whether the code had impacts on specific scientific studies - whether it actually provided some sort of checks and balances for studies designed by specific countries, or affected (or not) the design of specific human experimentation studies after the Code was created. So if more specific examples could be given in those areas it would make the article even better. Good job overall! KaylaMa (talk) 15:47, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review