LETTERS

摘要

In his review or our book, The Proactionary Imperative (6 September, p 46), Carl Elliott capitalises on outdated stereotypes of the Nuremberg Code and disabled people. We regard the Nuremberg Code, which continues to underwrite institutional review board constraints on research using human subjects, as an instance of US jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr's maxim that "hard cases make bad law".