Linda talks to Ruth Faden, author of "A History and Theory of Informal Consent" (Oxford University Press, 1986), and director of the Bio-Ethics Institute at the Johns Hopkins University . She is in Washington, D.C. to participate in the conference at the U.S. Holocaust Museum on "The Nuremberg Code and Human Rights: the 50th Anniversary of the Doctors Trials" (co-sponsored by Boston Univ. School of Public Health). published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She co-authored a paper about the Nuremberg Code, (published in the Nov. 27, 1996 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association), which outlines permissible conditions for medical experiments on humans, as part of the final judgment by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal. She tells how the Code guidelines for voluntary informed consent had not been formally adopted by medical establishments until the start of the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis performing medical experiments on prisoners. Faden also tells why the Code has not been widely adopted since the Trials.
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