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It was on 7th October 2000 that the 52nd World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly, meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, adopted the new, sixth version of the Declaration of Helsinki, subtitled Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects.
The original version of the Declaration was adopted by the 18th General Assembly, meeting in Helsinki in June 1964 after an intense debate lasting 12 years. Between 1964 and 2000 the Declaration was revised, in some cases in a relatively minor manner, on four occasions, in 1975, 1983, 1989 and 1996. We regard these new changes in a very positive light. We also regard it as one of the objectives of the current revision of the Declaration to make quite sure that the patient is optimally protected in a changing global research environment.
Before detailing what these changes are, I think it is useful to put this Declaration into a wider context. It is fair to say that the WMA came into being because of the lack of research ethics. The Second World War facilitated research of the most inhumane, horrific kind. During this war, physicians and others were involved in subjecting prisoners and patients to research that could only be described as a brutal violation of any sort of human right and dignity. In response to these atrocities, physicians from 27 nations met in 1946 to establish an organisation promoting ethical conduct and practice, and so the WMA was born.
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