Description: Despite having been revised and criticised over the years, the Declaration of Helsinki remains one of the most important and internationally known ethics codes worldwide. Yet we know relatively little about its historical origins or about the prolonged revision process which accompanied this oliving documento.
Review Quotes: "Mit diesem Band liegt ein willkommener Beitrag zu den jeweiligen historischen Kontexten noch immer aktueller forschungsethischer Problemstellungen vor. [...] eine gelungene Mischung aus historischer Forschung und ethischer Reflexion [...].""This book is must reading for anyone interested in the history, philosophy, sociology and politics of research ethics.""... the book has a pioneering quality; it marks a fundamental step in an important new research effort to examine the history of human experimentation and its ethical implications."