Title: Experiment perilous
First published: 1959
Description: In 1951, author Renee C. Fox became part of a team composed of metabolic experts, psychiatrists, social workers, and a psychologist who were to pool their methods, seeking understanding of the “human organism’s response to life stress”. Ms. Fox, a doctoral student in sociology, became an active part of life on Ward-F Second for a part of 1951-52. The patients suffer from a wide range of disorders. The Metabolic Research Group is a team of young physicians who are not only treating these patients, but also pursuing research on them, seeking cures. There is tension, stress, ambivalence, and differing degrees of personal investment. The report describes a small but important part of the medical world; its insights are particularly valuable for students and teachers in social work, medicine, and allied fields.
Subjects: Case studies, Clinical medicine, Disorders, History, Human experimentation in medicine, Medicine, Metabolism, Moral and ethical aspects, Moral and ethical aspects of Human experimentation in medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Physician and patient, Psychological aspects, Research, Social aspects, Social aspects of Human experimentation in medicine, Social medicine, Psychology, Aspect social, Human Experimentation, Éthique médicale, Patients, Hospital Medical Staff, Aspect moral, Physician-Patient Relations, Relations médecin-patient, Expérimentation humaine en médecine, Médecine clinique, Hospitals, Clinical medicine, research, Medical ethics, Physicians, Sociology, Laboratory Manuals