Especially in the biological aspects of natural sciences, researchers will need to consider if their methods of obtaining knowledge are ethical or otherwise. The field of medicine is a very limited area in terms of gathering knowledge about the human body. Following World War II, the Nuremberg Code was created as a standard by which physicians must abide if experimentation on humans is undertaken. The most relevant part of the code is number five which states that no experiment is to be done if there is some reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur (Mitscherlich and Mielke). Because of this part of the code, many ideas for experiments were rejected. If any research continued with disregard to the code, the results will not be accepted and will be void. This ethical limitation on human research projects have, in effect, suppressed the creation of new
Especially in the biological aspects of natural sciences, researchers will need to consider if their methods of obtaining knowledge are ethical or otherwise. The field of medicine is a very limited area in terms of gathering knowledge about the human body. Following World War II, the Nuremberg Code was created as a standard by which physicians must abide if experimentation on humans is undertaken. The most relevant part of the code is number five which states that no experiment is to be done if there is some reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur (Mitscherlich and Mielke). Because of this part of the code, many ideas for experiments were rejected. If any research continued with disregard to the code, the results will not be accepted and will be void. This ethical limitation on human research projects have, in effect, suppressed the creation of new