The Short Answer: YES. At the very least, a definite "maybe"… Let me explain. The Long Answer: What I’m referring to is the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Helsinki, a list of ethical guidelines for medical human subjects research, itself not international law, but the international ethical standard. The declaration has been codified into national law in... Continue Reading →
Overseas clinical trials of pharmaceuticals — the globalization of guinea pigs
(WARNING: this isn’t going to be pretty…) In the 1940s, the US Government deliberately infected mentally ill and incarcerated Guatemalans with syphilis – almost 700 people in total. The study design included arranging sexual encounters between prostitutes known to be infected and the male participants [you just can’t make stuff like this up]. After 2... Continue Reading →
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