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Hardcover For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation Book

ISBN: 1467706590

ISBN13: 9781467706599

For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation

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. How do doctors balance the need to test new medicines and procedures with their ethical duty to protect the rights of humans? Take a journey through some of history's greatest medical advances--and its most horrifying medical atrocities--to discover how human suffering has gone hand in hand with medical advancement.

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