I would suggest anyone involved in this matter with their employers might do well to eliminate any references to the Nuremberg Code entirely without doing some serious research on it yourself. My understanding is that the Code has never been formally adopted into law or accepted as an ethical standard by any medical association. If this is true, then you make yourself look like a damned fool who got conned by internet trolls — which might make you a candidate for termination in any case.
“My understanding is that the Code has never been formally adopted into law or accepted as an ethical standard by any medical association.”
Neither has the Hippocratic oath been formally adopted into law, but it is a bedrock of medical ethics. Both are referenced in medical malpractice trials.
Alliance for Human Research Protection Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention
"Does the FDA have the authority to trump the Declaration of Helsinki? "
However, as Dr. Goodyear points out, although not explicitly part of international or national law, the legal status of the Declaration of Helsinki and the Nuremberg Code are recognized. For example, both international codes were cited by several US courts: TD v NYS Office of Mental Health (1995); Grimes / Higgins v Kennedy Krieger, Court of Appeals of Maryland (2001) ; and in the recent US Court of Appeals, which ruled that the Declaration (and other conventions) constituted a sufficient customary norm to be considered binding in the Pfizer trovafloxacin case in January 2009. The court reversed a dismissal by a lower court of a lawsuit by families of children who had died or were injured in a Nigerian meningitis trial.
Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code
New England Journal of Medicine
Evelyne Shuster, Ph.D.
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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199711133372006
The Nuremberg Code, is however, one of the pillars of clinical research.
The Belmont Report, issued by the federal government in 1978 - and highly influenced by the Nuremberg Code - outlined ethical principles that should govern clinical research and clinical trials.
One of these is “respect for persons”