Prisons were run according to the unwritten tenets of the "convict code", as David Skarbek describes in his book, "The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System".
Their actions violate fundamental ethical principles of informed consent and "do no harm," central tenets of the Nuremberg Code -- which Americans set up during the Doctors Trial after World War II.
Indeed, the rightwing media has destroyed both tenets of this code.
This proposal is not only a violation of the basic tenet of the Nuremberg Code of Medical Ethics, which requires "freely given informed consent" by the subject of the trial, but it is also a bad idea.
When we took our seats, our instructor, Mary (name changed, as privacy is a major tenet of the notary code), introduced herself, and her raspy smoker's voice portended to frequent breaks.
An underlying tenet of the epigenetic code hypothesis is the existence of protein domains that can recognize various chromatin structures.
18 The centrality of the person with diabetes has long been a fundamental tenet of the American Association of Diabetes Educators AADEE) code of ethics, and it is a principle that is captured in the AADE position statement on the "Individualization of diabetes self-management education".
A report from the ethics committee said that Ward had "created the appearance of a conflict of interest," but did not specifically call that a violation, although it is a breach of the tenets of the Olympic committee's ethics code.
But Mr. Bonanno's autobiography violated the basic Mafia tenet of omerta -- the code of secrecy -- and he was the first Mafia boss to write about his underworld affairs.
The sign-reversal effected by this backward pathway is clearly consistent with the tenets of predictive coding.
Imagine if that same morality code said "because the tenets of the church recognize God as the highest authority, no employee of the school is permitted to vote".
