For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation

Name: For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation
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ISBN: 9781467706599

ISBN-10: 1467706590

ISBN-13: 9781467706599

Edition: 2013

Authors: Vicki Oransky Wittenstein

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Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly small pox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia. Result: The beginnings of modern gynecology. Incidents like these paved the way for crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries. But they also harmed and humiliated their test subjects, many of whom did not agree to the experiments in the first place. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of human subjects? Take a harrowing journey through some of history's greatest medical…

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List price: $35.93
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
Binding: Library Binding
Pages: 96
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English