The Nuremberg Code: The Belmont Report And The Helsinki Declaration

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Documents like the Nuremberg Code, the Belmont Report and the Helsinki Declaration should, to an extent, have influence on the court’s assessment of cases involving living human subjects and the duties that they are owed. Since all the documents mentioned above are not in fact, the law, court decisions should not entirely rely on them. That being said, the Nuremberg Code includes sections that are inherent duties of medical researchers. For example, both the Code and the Belmont Report write on beneficence, and describe the duties that are owed to research subjects (Dolgin & Shepherd 698, 702). Grimes v. Kennedy Krieger Institute, a case in which KKI conducted non-therapeutic research of lead exposure to children in their homes, consulted