Study Questions for
The Human
Rights documents
- Please explain in your own words what you understand
to be the most important elements in the first paragraph of The
Nuremberg Code.
- Pick one other provision in The Nuremberg
Code that seems important or interesting to you and explain
what you understand it to mean.
- What do you understand the third paragraph
in the Preamble of the UDHR to mean?
- In the final paragraph of the Preamble,
what do you think the UDHR is calling on Member States to do?
- What measures
did WHO/CIOMS take to insure as much international input into these Guidelines as possible?
- The Introduction to the WHO/CIOMS Guidelines refers
to two viewpoints about ethical principles, the universalist and
the pluralist.
a. What
do you understand this difference to be?
b. What
position does this Guidelines document say it takes on
that issue?
- This Guidelines document refers to three “General
Ethical Principles” (in
a section by that title). Explain briefly what you understand
each of those priniciples to mean.
- The last sentence in Guideline 1 refers to the importance
of well designed research. Please explain what you understand this sentence
to be saying.
- In Guideline 7, why do you suppose some inducements
to participate are considered “undue
inducement?” What do you understand “undue inducement” to
mean?
- Guideline 9 refers to “individuals who are
not capable of giving informed consent.” What might be some
examples of people you think this is referring to?
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