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Date Fist historical event that I will mention and which contributed to the development of procedures to protect human research subjects are Nazi medical war crimes committed between 1939 and 1945 . The actions of medical personnel who conducted the experiments were condemned as crimes against humanity . Among other things , these events led to development of laws and procedures to protect human research subjects

The second event that I will mention is the Nuremburg Code . This is a This is a set of rules established in

1947 and designed to outline acceptable ways of conducting human research . The rules are based on ethical , legal , and moral requirements and as such served as a model for many professional and governmental codes (NIH , 2009

The third event that I will discuss is the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee According to the National Institute of Health (2009 ) this case was

Arguably the most notorious example in the United States of the violation of the rights and welfare of human subjects was the long-term study of black males conducted by the United States Public Health Service in Tuskegee , Alabama . This study of the natural history of untreated syphilis was initiated in the 1930s and continued until 1972

The subjects to this study were recruited without informed consent and therefore were not informed about any possible consequences for their participation

The disregard for ethics apparent in the above-mentioned study caused an investigation by the United States Congress , which in turn resulted in...