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insult to and on humanity.
Ethical issues arise not only in the clinical setting of a hospital or doctor’s office, but in the laboratory as well. A main concern of medical ethicists is monitoring the design of clinical trials and other experiments involving human subjects. Medical ethicists are particularly interested in confirming that all the subjects have voluntarily given their consent and have been fully informed of the nature of the study and its potential consequences. In this particular area of medical ethics, one infamous period in history has echoed loudly for more than half a century: the experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on captive, unwilling human subjects during World War II (1939-1945). Under the guise of science, thousands of Jews and other prisoners were subjected to grotesque and horrifying procedures. Some were frozen to death, or slowly and fatally deprived of oxygen in experiments that simulated the effects of high altitude. Others were deliberately infected with cholera and other infectious agents or subjected to bizarre experiments involving transfusions of blood or transplants of organs. Many underwent sterilization, as Nazi doctors investigated the most efficient means of sterilizing what they considered inferior populations. In all, these inhumane acts so outraged the world that, after the war, trials were held in Nürnberg, Germany, and many of the responsible Nazi physicians were convicted and executed as war criminals.
For details on:
Freezing / Hypothermia
Genetics
Infectious Diseases
Interrogation and Torture
Killing / Genocide
High Altitude
Pharmacological
Sterilization
Surgery
Traumatic Injuries
go to: http://www.remember.org/educate/medexp.h�?/a>
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