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The Declaration of Helsinki defines ethical standards for human trials in medical research.

Date: 1964

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This international law establishes consent practices and limitations on human trials in medical research. The law recognizes the eugenic influences on past medical research and seeks to define ethics by ending these practices with the clarification: "for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion."