An ethics committee is a body responsible for ensuring that medical experimentation and human subject research are carried out in an ethical manner in accordance with national and international law.
Nazi physician Herta Oberheuser during sentencing in Nuremberg. She was found guilty of performing medical experiments on concentration camp inmates and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Oberheuser during sentencing to 20 years of imprisonment, Doctors' trial, Nuremberg, August 1947