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- Mustard Gas Tested on American Military. Image Source In 1943, the U.S. Navy exposed its own sailors to mustard gas. Officially, the Navy was testing the effectiveness of new clothing and gas masks against the deadly gas that had proven so terrifying in the first World War.
- Radioactive Materials in Pregnant Women. Image Source Shortly after World War II, with the impending Cold War forefront on the minds of Americans, many medical researchers were preoccupied with the idea of radioactivity and chemical warfare.
- Unit 731. Image Source From 1937 to 1945, the imperial Japanese Army developed a covert biological and chemical warfare research experiment called Unit 731.
- Nazi Human Experimentation. Image Source Over the course of the Third Reich and the Holocaust, Nazi Germany conducted a series of medical experiments on Jews, POWs, Romani, and other persecuted groups.
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics. Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
The experiments include the exposure of humans to many chemical and biological weapons (including infections with deadly or debilitating diseases), human radiation experiments, injections of toxic and radioactive chemicals, surgical experiments, interrogation and torture experiments, tests which involve mind-altering substances, and a wide varie...
Human experiments were more extensive than often assumed with a minimum of 15,750 documented victims. Experiments rapidly increased from 1942, reaching a high point in 1943 and sustained until the end of the war.
- Paul Weindling, Anna von Villiez, Aleksandra Loewenau, Aleksandra Loewenau, Nichola Farron
- 10.1016/j.endeavour.2015.10.005
- 2016
- Endeavour. 2016 Mar; 40(1): 1-6.
- The Prison Doctor Who Did Testicular Transplants. From 1913 to 1951, eugenicist Leo Stanley was the chief surgeon at San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest correctional institution.
- The Oncologist Who Injected Cancer Cells Into Patients and Prisoners. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sloan-Kettering Institute oncologist Chester Southam conducted research to learn how people’s immune systems would react when exposed to cancer cells.
- The Aptly Named ‘Monster Study’ Pioneering speech pathologist Wendell Johnson suffered from severe stuttering that began early in his childhood. His own experience motivated his focus on finding the cause, and hopefully a cure, for stuttering.
- The Dermatologist Who Used Prisoners As Guinea Pigs. One of the biggest breakthroughs in dermatology was the invention of Retin-A, a cream that can treat sun damage, wrinkles, and other skin conditions.
Jan 9, 2019 · Historic examples of human experimentation include wartime atrocities by Nazi doctors that tested the limits of human survival. Another led to the creation of the hepatitis B vaccine...
Human Experimentation: An Introduction to the Ethical Issues. In January 1944, a 17-year-old Navy seaman named Nathan Schnurman volunteered to test protective clothing for the Navy. Following orders, he donned a gas mask and special clothes and was escorted into a 10-foot by 10-foot chamber, which was then locked from the outside.
