The Declaration of Helinski Revised by the World Medical Organisation, Edinburgh 2000

Abstract

This is an edited version of a paper delivered at a conference in Gijon, Spain in 2001. Professor Deutsch provides an introduction to, and overview of, the recently revised Declaration of Helsinki. Early sets of international rules put the benefit and the wellbeing of the experimental subject in the first place and insist on weighing the benefit and the danger of the experiment against each other. The article covers the history of the Declaration, arguments about reforming the Declaration, a critique of the New Declaration of Helsinki 2000, and the relationship between the Declaration and the European Union.