Question 61 · LDEK · Conventions and declarations
The Declaration of Helsinki adopted by the World Medical Association in 1964 (as last amended in 2013) concerns:
- A. ethical considerations regarding health databases and biobanks.
- B. ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects.
- C. guidelines for physicians concerning torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in relation to detention and imprisonment.
- D. determination of death and the recovery of organs.
- E. hunger strikes.
Hint
Recall what kind of activity the famous 1964 WMA document was written to regulate.
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