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International Declarations, Guidelines and Ethical Directives Regarding Vulnerability

April 2025

DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-84412-6_6

In book: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Vulnerability (pp.117-134)

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The following chapter delves comprehensively into the corpus of international legislation and overarching global directives that have been promulgated pertaining to the concept of vulnerability subsequent to the seminal Nuremberg trial (1945–1946). It elucidates the evolution of conceptualizations surrounding the aforementioned term, delineating its progressive refinement culminating in the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (UNESCO 2005).

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