| The Nuremberg Code Summary |
| The voluntary consent of the human subject is essential. |
| The experiment should be conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. |
| No experiment should be so conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur, except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as a subjects. |
| Proper preparation should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death. |
| During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems to him to be impossible. |
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~ Summary from the Nuremberg Code
Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Under Control
Council Law 10, Volume 2, Nuremberg, October 1946 - April 1949
Washington DC, US Government Printing Office, 1949; pp. 181-182 |