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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much depends on that principle because there is no crime that cannot be, that has not been, committed in the name of the future against those who inhabit the present. Medical experimentation, which invokes the claims of the future, necessarily turns people into means. That is why the Nuremberg Code on human experimentation (established after World War II in reaction to the ghastly Nazi experiments on prisoners) declares that for research to be ethical the subject must give consent. The person is violated if it is unwillingly-even if only uncomprehendingly-used for the benefit of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Using of Baby Fae | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...gastroenterologist, first heard of the Eppinger Prize, his reaction was one of horror. He clearly remembered reading about a pioneering Viennese liver specialist named Hans Eppinger who had planned vicious experiments on inmates of Nazi concentration camps. He recalled that the doctor had committed suicide when summoned to the Nuremberg war-crimes tribunal in 1946. Research showed that the award's namesake and the Nazi physician were the same man, and Spiro launched a protest to publicize the truth about Eppinger. Says he: "This is a matter I could not let rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infamy Haunts a Top Award | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Documents and testimony from the Nuremberg trials offer damning evidence. They show that Eppinger helped plan a series of human experiments conducted at Dachau in 1944. The research sought to find a way of making saltwater potable for pilots stranded at sea. In Eppinger's experiments, 44 gypsies were kept for up to a week on a diet consisting of sea water. Some were given seawater containing a chemical called berkatite, which disguised the salty taste. Though earlier research had shown that berkatite treatment was dangerous and ineffective, Eppinger had apparently insisted that further tests were needed. Prisoners became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Infamy Haunts a Top Award | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...Boston University professor goes further in calling for special guidelines for transplants on children. Professor of Health Law George T. Annas, who headed up a task force earlier this month which set the guidelines for heart transplants in Massachusetts, advocated a more widespread use of the Nuremberg code of ethics for human experimentation. "There should be absolutely no risky experiments performed on children until the same experiments have been successfully applied to adults," he says...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Baby Fae: A Breakthrough or an Aberration? | 11/21/1984 | See Source »

...elect's chief economic adviser, estimates that Argentina will need at least $14 billion next year simply to meet its debt payments. During the campaign, Alfonsin promised to study the repayment agreements, but his advisers say they will not be discarded. "We are not going to conduct a Nuremberg trial," says Grinspun. "If the contracts are in conformity, we won't touch them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Voting No! to the Past | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

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