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Helsinki Declaration

An international agreement of the World Medical Association which offers guidelines for conducting experiments using human subjects. It was adopted in 1962 and revised by the 18th World Medical Assembly at Helsinki, Finland in 1964. Subsequent revisions were made in 1975, 1983, 1989, and 1996. (From Encyclopedia of Bioethics, rev ed, 1995)

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An international agreement of the World Medical Association which offers guidelines for conducting experiments using human subjects. It was adopted in 1962 and revised by the 18th World Medical Assembly at Helsinki, Finland in 1964. Subsequent revisions were made in 1975, 1983, 1989, and 1996. (From Encyclopedia of Bioethics, rev ed, 1995)

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3 entry terms
  • Declaration of Helsinki
  • Declaration, Helsinki
  • Helsinki Declarations

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91(75); was see under ETHICS, MEDICAL 1975-90

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  1. K01w.752w.566w.479w.068w.249w
  2. K01w.752w.566w.479w.171w.066w.249w
  3. K01w.752w.566w.479w.173w.400w
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  1. National Library of Medicine. Helsinki Declaration. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006381. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006381
  2. Helsinki Declaration. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Helsinki
  3. Helsinki Declaration. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q777473