By Susan E. Lederer. 192 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. $32.95. ISBN 0-8018-4820-2.
The Nuremburg Trial and the annunciation of the Nuremburg Codein 1947 were watershed events in the history of the ethics ofhuman experimentation. Although some of the judges who issuedthe judgment at Nuremburg were Americans, the period from the1940s to the 1970s continued to reveal examples of the use andabuse of vulnerable human subjects in biomedical research inthe United States. Experiments were often conducted under duressand without consent on military personnel, prisoners, children,the incompetent, the elderly, and the dying. Formal regulationsprotecting human subjects participating in biomedical and behavioralresearch were not promulgated . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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