President’s bioethics committee must consider horrific US medical experiments of the past

Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

Mike Stobbe The Associated Press via AOL News 2/27/2011

In this June 25, 1945 photo, a doctor exposes a patient to malaria-carrying mosquitoes at Stateville Penitentiary in Crest Hill, Ill. A series of malaria studies at Stateville and two other prisons were designed to test antimalarial […]

‘Informed Consent’ and the Ethics of DNA Research

Amy Harmon The New York Times 4/23/2010

The cultural gap between the impoverished Havasupai Indians who view their blood as sacred and the Arizona State University researchers who helicoptered in to their Grand Canyon home to collect it was at the heart of a lawsuit over the scope of a genetic study that ended last […]

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