From Nuremberg to bioethics: an educational projectfor students of dentistry and dental prosthesis
Authors
S. Marinozzi , G. Corbellini , L. Ottolenghi , F. Ripari , A. Pizzuti , M. Pezzetti , F. Gaj
Abstract
In the lessons of medical-scientific methodologies of the medical faculty at the Sapienza University of Rome, basic notions on the ethical and deontologic aspects characterizing the history of the medical profession are provided, including the formulation and application of bioethical principles to clinics and biomedical research. Within such framework, an educational project has been initiated on the historical origin of the current normative and juridic dispositions in the regulation of experimental biomedical research and the relationship between health operators and patients, with particular attention tothe procedure, the meaning the value either professional or deontologic, of ethics and the legality of the informed consensus. Emphasis is put on medical and experimental abuses that occurred in Germany during the naziregime.
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