Editing Nuremberg Code (section)

===Authorship 'controversy'===
The Code was initially ignored, but gained much greater significance about 20 years after it was written. As a result, there were substantial rival claims for the creation of the Code. Some claimed that [[Harold Sebring]], one of the three U.S. judges who presided over the [[Doctors' trial]], was the author. [[Leo Alexander]], MD and [[Andrew Ivy]], MD, the prosecution's chief medical expert witnesses, were also each identified as authors. In his letter to [[Maurice Henry Pappworth]], an English physician and the author of the 1967 book ''[[Human Guinea Pigs]]'', Andrew Ivy claimed sole authorship of the code. Leo Alexander, approximately 30 years after the trial, also claimed sole authorship.<ref name="gaw14">{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/0141076814523948|title=Reality and revisionism: New evidence for Andrew C Ivy's claim to authorship of the Nuremberg Code|year=2014|last1=Gaw|first1=Allan|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=107|issue=4|pages=138–143|pmid=24566934|pmc=4109334}}</ref> However, after careful reading of the transcript of the Doctors' trial, background documents, and the final judgements, it is more accepted that the authorship was shared and the code grew out of the trial itself.<ref name="shuster97">{{cite journal |doi=10.1056/NEJM199711133372006|title=Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code|year=1997|last1=Shuster|first1=Evelyne|journal=New England Journal of Medicine|volume=337|issue=20|pages=1436–1440|pmid=9358142|s2cid=9950045 |doi-access=free}}</ref>