Here’s what the Nuremberg Code said:
The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created by the U.S. v Brandt court as one result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War. In a review written on the 50th anniversary of the Brandt verdict, Katz writes that "a careful reading of the judgment suggests that [the authors] wrote the Code for the practice of human experimentation whenever it is being conducted."[1]
Background
The ten points of the Nuremberg CodeEdit
The ten points of the code were given in the section of the judges' verdict entitled "Permissible Medical Experiments":[6]