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- Getting rid of degrading experimentation. On the
and unsatisfactory behavior: other hand, the United
This aspect emphasizes Nations has adopted the
the liberation from principles of medical
treatment without patient ethics regarding the role
consent, such as the of health workers and
prohibition of experiments has issued guidelines to
and research without protect prisoners and
consent. In this regard, detainees from inhumane
Article 7 of the International treatment and punishment.
Covenant on Civil and (UNGA,1982)
Political Rights (1966) - Social Determinants of
explicitly prohibits medical Health: It means the
and scientific experiments conditions in which people
on human beings without are born, grow and live,
their full knowledge of work and grow old.
the limits and scope of These situations are shaped
the experiment: No one by the distribution of
shall be subjected to money and wealth, power
torture or to cruel, inhuman and resources at the
or degrading treatment or global, national and local
punishment. In particular, levels. (WHO, 2017) For
no one shall be subjected example, there is a
without his free consent significant correlation
to medical or scientific between poverty and
