The adoption of the Nuremberg Code successfully brought an era of involuntary experimentation on Blacks to an end.

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The adoption of the Nuremberg Code in 1947 was a response to the unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors during World War II. While it provided guidelines for ethical research involving human subjects, it did not directly address the issue of involuntary experimentation on Black people. It was not until 1974, with the passage of the National Research Act in the United States, that ethical guidelines were established to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects in medical research, including the requirement of informed consent.

The Adoption of the Nuremberg Code Successfully Brought an Era