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Does the aim of human medical experimentation affect its legal or ethical validity? 1979

M A Somerville

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004992	Ethics, Medical	The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.	Medical Ethics
D006381	Helsinki Declaration	An international agreement of the World Medical Association which offers guidelines for conducting experiments using human subjects. It was adopted in 1962 and revised by the 18th World Medical Assembly at Helsinki, Finland in 1964. Subsequent revisions were made in 1975, 1983, 1989, and 1996. (From Encyclopedia of Bioethics, rev ed, 1995)	Declaration of Helsinki,Declaration, Helsinki,Helsinki Declarations
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D006805	Human Experimentation	The use of humans as investigational subjects.	Human Research Subject Protection,Experimentation, Human
D018570	Risk Assessment	The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)	Assessment, Risk,Benefit-Risk Assessment,Risk Analysis,Risk-Benefit Assessment,Health Risk Assessment,Risks and Benefits,Analysis, Risk,Assessment, Benefit-Risk,Assessment, Health Risk,Assessment, Risk-Benefit,Benefit Risk Assessment,Benefit-Risk Assessments,Benefits and Risks,Health Risk Assessments,Risk Analyses,Risk Assessment, Health,Risk Assessments,Risk Benefit Assessment,Risk-Benefit Assessments
D032781	Codes of Ethics	Systematic statements of principles or rules of appropriate professional conduct, usually established by professional societies.	Ethical Codes,Ethical Oaths,Code of Ethics,Codes of Professional Ethics,Ethical Directives,Code, Ethical,Codes, Ethical,Directive, Ethical,Directives, Ethical,Ethical Code,Ethical Directive,Ethical Oath,Ethics Code,Ethics Code, Professional,Ethics Codes,Ethics Codes, Professional,Oath, Ethical,Oaths, Ethical,Professional Ethics Code,Professional Ethics Codes
D033281	Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation	Human experimentation that is not intended to benefit the subjects on whom it is performed. Phase I drug studies (CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC) and research involving healthy volunteers are examples of nontherapeutic human experimentation.	Human Experimentation, Nontherapeutic,Nontherapeutic Research,Research, Nontherapeutic,Experimentation, Nontherapeutic Human
D036302	Therapeutic Human Experimentation	Human experimentation that is intended to benefit the subjects on whom it is performed.	Human Experimentation, Therapeutic,Therapeutic Research,Research, Therapeutic,Experimentation, Therapeutic Human