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...conclusion of hostilities. In any case, the humane treatment of war prisoners has long been prescribed by international law and by accepted standards of decency. War, as Montesquieu wrote in 1748, gives neither side any right over prisoners other than that of "disabling them from doing any further harm by securing their persons...
...Prohibiting discrimination in choosing federal, state or local juries, empowering the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbidding intimidation or physical harm to civil rights workers and voters...
...result of S.N.C.C.'s new militancy. He has refused to parrot the black-power line, explaining: "I'm not prepared to give up my personal commitment to nonviolence." He argues that the Mississippi march, which Carmichael tried to dominate, may have done the civil rights cause more harm than good...
...experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm to the subject involved...
...such an expanding scale in the last two decades, the desire for results seems too often to have outweighed the means of arriving at them." As a guideline for researchers, the Journal quotes the great French physiologist-researcher Claude Bernard (1813-78) on human experiments: "Those that can only harm are forbidden." Those that involve no foreseeable harm to the patient are "innocent" and therefore permissible. "Those that may do good are obligatory." The problem in 1966 is to define "those that are innocent...