For the good of mankind?
Subtitle: the shameful history of human medical experimentation
By: Vicki Oransky Wittenstein
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781467706599
Subjects: Methodology; History; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical sciences; Research
Description: This book provides true accounts of horrifying experimentation that led the way to crucial, lifesaving medical discoveries, permanently harming and humiliating their test subjects, many of whom did not agree to the experiments in the first place.

Discusses the several medical advances that were achieved through unethical medical experimentation on humans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-90) and index.

11-18.

Accelerated Reader UG 9.5 5 5 160222
Table of contents: title: Creating human guinea pigs; title: Nazi crimes against humanity; title: Exploitation in the name of war; title: Shifting attitudes in the wake of scandal; title: Can we safeguard human risks?