Rethinking Medical Ethics from Hyppocratic Oath to Nuremberg Code

Abstract

In this short review, we reconsider how medical ethics based on Hyppocratic Oath since centuries ago, began to decline gradually especially after medicine experiments were introduced by Nazi doctors in camps during WW II. At the end, Nuremberg code is introduced at the Post- WW II era. We also discuss some implications to today medical experiments especially those which involve humans