Word: consented
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...Benda, who was a Harvard faculty member until the late 1960s, wrote Fernald parents seeking permission to include their sons in the experiments. One letter says the children had "volunteered" to participate in the tests. In another, Benda says the absence of consent by parents or guardians would be taken as an assumption that permission had been granted...
David H. Dockham '58 an advocate for the retarded, says the experiments with radiation conducted on retarded children at Fernald and Wrentham violated the standards of the 1947 Nuremburg Code, which established the notion of "informed consent...
...Harvard alumnus has convinced at least one high-level University official that a 13-year-old research regulation allowing scientists to test human subjects without obtaining informed consent needs to be reconsidered...
David H. Dockham '58 is raising the issue in the wake of a state report condemning "human rights violations" by Harvard researchers who used retarded children in experiments with radiation without their consent during the Cold...
...policy, adopted by the President and Fellows of Harvard College in late 1981, says a committee on human subject research may waive the requirement of informed consent under certain circumstances...