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Privacy versus History

How Far Should the Dead Hand Reach?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

JACOB M. APPEL
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One of the most fundamental tenets of medical research, enshrined in the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, is that scientific investigation involving human beings requires the informed consent of the subjects.

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Special Section: Open Forum
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 51 - 63
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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