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- Declaration of Helsinki [r]: Initiated in response to to Nazi medical experiments and the resulting Nuremberg Code, the continually updated world agreement on ethical principles for medical research with human subjects [e]
- Informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial [e]
- Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. [e]
- Randomized controlled trial [r]: "Work consisting of a clinical trial that involves at least one test treatment and one control treatment, concurrent enrollment and follow-up of the test- and control-treated groups, and in which the treatments to be administered are selected by a random process, such as the use of a random-numbers table." (Anonymous, (2009) Randomized controlled trial (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) [e]
- Torture [r]: The infliction of mental or physical pain, for punishment or as an interrogation technique. [e]
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study [r]: Clinical study conducted in the 1930s in Tuskegee, Alabama, by the US Public Health Service, into syphilis for research related to the natural progression of the untreated disease. [e]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
- World Health Organization [r]: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. [e]
