Nuremberg Code

The Nuremberg Code is a central, relevant today applied ethical guideline for the preparation and implementation of medical, psychological and other experiments on humans. He has been part of the verdict in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in particular (similar to the Geneva vow ) to the medical ethical principles in medical education. He says that in medical experiments on humans

" The voluntary consent of the human essential (ist). This means that the person must be capable of in the legal sense, of giving his consent; that they must be able to make unaffected by force, fraud, deceit, duress, pretense, or any other form of persuasion or coercion, by her judgment use; that they sufficiently in its details to know the area in question and must be understood in order to make an intelligent and informed decision can ".

The reason for the Nuremberg Code were during the time of National Socialism in the name of medical research crimes.

The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial marked the 1997 for the 50th time, and thus the birth of the Nuremberg Doctors' Code of 1947. Nuremberg regional group of the IPPNW took the opportunity, in the wake of Congress ' Medicine and Conscience " in 1996 with a memorial service at the basic underlying principles of the Code of 1947 to remember and from 1997 to relate the Nuremberg Code on current bioethical issues.

The ten points of the Nuremberg Code in 1947

(Opinion of the First American Military Tribunal about " permissible medical experiments " )