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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.
Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There were 15,754 documented victims, of various nationalities and age groups, although the true number is believed to be more extensive.
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2022 · For research involving human participants, the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctor–researchers exposed the horrors of human experimentation during WWII. In the post-WWII period, identifying...
Numerous instances of research experiments in subsequent years exposed vulnerable subjects to risk, including a pivotal research disaster in Germany just before World War II that led to regulations for human subjects participation in research projects.
