title: Achieving the Nuremberg Code
abstract: Second perhaps only to the Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code is the most cited and most influential document in the history of medical ethics.But the Code's essential place in the concepts that comprise the postwar rules-based order is not widely appreciated.More than a set of ethics standards for human experiments, the Code is the specific application of a broader set of princi ples that guided the indictments and judgments in thirteen legal cases in Nuremberg after the war.Well beyond those
journal: The MIT Press eBooks