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VRM: Human Rights & Voluntary Consent
By Joel Lord “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962 NUREMBERG CODE: (adopted August 19, 1947) LAW #10 – VOLUNTARY CONSENT 1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have […]
Research ethics require action and vigilance
Allen M. Hornblum is the author of Acres of Skin and Sentenced to Science and is working on a book dealing with institutionalized children as research test subjects. This month in the nation’s capital, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues heard testimony on human-subject protection in the aftermath of recent revelations that […]
Physician vaccination a top priority and a duty
Originally posted in medical ethics discussion forum, amednews.com Scenario: Should physicians be vaccinated against highly transmissible viral illness? Physicians are among those refusing to get vaccinations. With the variety of institutional policies and legal decisions in force around the country, it’s a serious matter. The American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs has […]
What Do Vaccines & McCarthyism Have in Common?
By Catherine Frompovich Why do the blacklist hearings of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s (http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-mccarthy) remind me of what’s going on with vaccinations today? I lived through and experienced those infamous days, and recall how everyone was overwhelmed in some way by what was going on in Washington, DC, because of one senator’s obsession: […]
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