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World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects

Oxford University Press eBooksPublished 17 April 2003
Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens, Mahmoud F. Fathalla
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TL;DR

This resolution is to be adopted by the 64th WMA General Assembly, Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2013 on the theme of human rights and democracy.

Abstract

Abstract This chapter outlines the provisions of the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki, which was developed as a statement of ethical principles to provide guidance to physicians and other participants in medical research involving human subjects. Medical research involving human subjects includes research on identifiable human material or identifiable data.

Keywords

Medicine