The doctrine that was the basis for the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Investigation is the _______.

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The Nuremberg Code was developed after World War II to establish ethical guidelines for human experimentation in response to the unethical medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors during the war. The principles outlined in the code were adopted by the World Medical Association as the basis for the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Investigation. Therefore, option A is the correct answer. The National Research Act created the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, which later issued the Belmont Report. The Buckley Amendment and Privacy Acts of 1974 refer to student privacy rights in education.

The Doctrine That Was the Basis for the Declaration of Helsinki