Advances in medical science can indeed save lives, but sometimes experiment conducted by scientists violate existing ethics. This is her seventh worst medical experiments involving human subjects.
As quoted by LiveScience, Friday (17/12/2010) there are seven of the worst in the history of medical experiments involving humans as subjects, namely:
1. Tuskegee Study
The study lasted for 40 years. According to the Center Disease Control and Prevention US, health authorities launched a study on the health effects of untreated syphilis. Unfortunately it is not known by the participants, whether they received treatment for syphilis or not.
Researchers track the progression of the disease in 399 black men in Alabama, including 201 healthy men.Scientists reveal the participants that diriya being treated as having 'bad blood'. These participants never get adequate treatment, even until 1947 when penicillin became the drug of choice to treat syphilis.
2. syphilis study in Guatemala
Between the years 1946 to 1948, the US government and Guatemala conduct a joint study by means of deliberately infecting prisoners with syphilis in Guatemala and patients in a mental hospital. This study aims to test the chemicals that can prevent the spread of disease.
Researchers tried to infect subjects with telling her how to have sex with prostitutes who are already infected.Although syphilis is given penicillin drugs, but not the discovery of further treatment for these patients.
3. Experimental surgery on slave
figures of modern gynecology, J. Marion Sims many gained fame by performing experimental surgery on female slaves. Sims experiment surgery without anesthesia (partial anesthesia has not been found), but it is revealed that it is not painful enough. Whereas in the Journal of Medical Ethics 1993 written do with human experimental unacceptable.
4. Murder Burke and Hale
Until the 1830s execution killings are relatively rare, so many experts take or buy anatomy of the human body from the robbers. Until finally William Hale and his friend William Burke opened the inn entrepreneurs and sell body for sale on the anatomists. As a result of these crimes Burke later hanged for his crimes.
