HSS 2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Human Subject Research, Nuremberg Code, Monster Study
15 Jan 2017
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Against their will: the secret history of medical experimentation on children in cold. War america; allen m. hornblum, judith l. newman, and gregory j. dober. Fernald case was not an aberration was a tradition spanning three quarters of the 20th century where the top physicians and scientists in the us experimented on orphans, mentally ill, disabled, and poor infants, children and adolescents. Authors identify the political and scientific rationale driving research with under-aged and vulnerable participants. Human experimentation on vulnerable populations in the us continued and even flourished long after eugenics went out of fashion after wwii. Supersede the interests of the subject well into the 1970s. During eugenics and the cold war experiments were done on vulnerable adults: incarcerated, the disabled, senior citizens, low income populations, and racial minorities: infamous tuskegee syphilis experiments of african american men in rural.
