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Scientific and Medical Ethics: Protecting People While Enhancing Autonomy and Justice
Pages 26-29

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... His code of ethical conduct forms the basis of the modern-day Hippocratic oath taken by doctors. (iStock®)
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... ethics seeks to help physicians and other health professionals identify and respond to ethical 1972 1973 challenges that arise in the ordinary care of patients, including truth telling, informed consent, Research Misconduct Exposed in After Tuskegee: Putting Human Subjects confidentiality, surrogate decision making, and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Research Guidelines in Place end-of-life care. For 40 years, a group of 600 African American In 1973, Congress passed the National Research men from Tuskegee, Alabama -- about 400 with Act, which called for the development of syphilis and 200 who did not have the disease -- regulations on research with human subjects, 1991 were unknowing subjects in a study of the effects required institutions to form Institutional Review of syphilis sponsored by the U.S.
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From page 28...
... 2000 2001 2005 Fabrication, Falsification, or Preventing Data Suppression Added Oversight for Potentially Plagiarism of Research in Clinical Trials Harmful Research The White House Office of Science and Technology For decades, drug companies were reported to In response to recommendations from the 2004 Policy finalized a federal definition of research have suppressed data about dangerous side effects National Research Council report Biotechnology misconduct in 2000 as "fabrication, falsification, of popular medications, both in publications and Research in an Age of Terrorism, the U.S. or plagiarism" in proposing, performing, or in seeking approvals by the U.S.
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... His actions sparked Science and Medicine international outrage and caused many scientists Starting in 2017, the #MeToo and #TimesUp and policymakers to call for an official ban on movements brought the scope and severity of human germline genome editing. A 2020 National Above: Colored scanning sexual harassment and gender inequity to the Academy of Medicine/National Academy of electron micrograph of HeLa forefront of public consciousness -- extending Sciences report, Heritable Human Genome Editing, cells that have just replicated (Science Photo Library®)
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