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The Hippocratic oath and Nuremberg code how was medical ethics violated in Henrietta lacks

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The Hippocratic Oath is the vow medical students take during their white coat ceremony at the beginning of medical training and again at graduation, proclaiming their commitment to medical ethics. The original oath has been modified multiple times in medicine’s history, but three versions are most commonly recited today. They are:

The original 5th-century-B.C. Oath of Hippocrates provided the first ethical guideline for physicians in ancient Greece.

The Declaration of Geneva was written in 1948 (amended numerous times, most recently in 2017) in response to the grotesquely inhumane treatment of individuals in Nazi Germany

The Modern Physician’s Oath is a 1964 revision by Dr. Louis Lasagna.

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