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The Suppressed Legacy of Nuremberg
Author(s) -
Burt Robert A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528468
Subject(s) - nuremberg trials , autonomy , ideal (ethics) , subject (documents) , personal autonomy , law , psychoanalysis , psychology , political science , computer science , international law , war crime , library science
The story of patient self‐determination cannot be told without 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.