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... A SHORT HISTORY OF HUMAN SUBJECTS PROTECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES In response to the atrocities committed by Nazi scientists during World War II, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal created the Nuremberg Code, a set of 10 principles for research involving human participants, including an absolute requirement for voluntary consent (Nuremburg Code, 1946 1949; United States v. Karl Brandt et al.
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... A PHS advisory panel reviewing the Tuskegee study determined that existing procedures for the protection of research subjects were inadequate and that the U.S. Congress should establish a "permanent body with the authority to regulate at least all federally supported research involving human subjects" (Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, 1973, p.
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