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The Suppressed Legacy of Nuremberg
Burt, Robert
Burt, Robert
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Abstract
The story of patient self-determination cannot be told with- out the Nuremberg trials. Patient autonomy was the first criterion enunciated by the Nuremberg judges and has served as a touchstone for human subject research and patient care ever since. Yet this ideal was in an important sense irrelevant at the moment it was originally proclaimed.