"Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experiment: A slave woman is forced to undergo more than thirty operations without anesthesia. Result: The beginnings of modern gynecology. Incidents like these paved the way for crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries. But they also harmed and humiliated their test subjects, many of whom did not agree to the experiments in the first place. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of human subjects? Take a harrowing journey through some of history's greatest medical advancesand its most horrifying medical atrocitiesto discover how human suffering has gone hand in hand with medical advancement."--
Record details
ISBN:1467706590
ISBN:9781467706599
Physical Description:96 pages ; illustrations ; 27 cm. print
Publisher:Minneapolis, Minnesota : Twenty-First Century Books, [2014]
Includes bibliographical references (page 89) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Human guinea pigs : the birth of medical science -- Heinous acts against humanity : medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps -- World War II and Cold War experimentation in the United States : exploiting those without full rights -- On the heels of abuse : the winds of change -- The cutting edge of medical advancements : can we safeguard human risks?