HLST 4010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Allan Memorial Institute, Clinical Trial, Canadian Medical Association Journal

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Medical research- theory and purpose: medical research is supposed to be a scientific enterprise. Its aim is to acquire a better understanding of the biochemical and physiological processes involved in human functioning. Ignoring the intrinsic individual worth of each person in a research project has led to horrific abuses in medical research. In this case, a prisoner cannot be considered to have made a free decision as there is no genuine consent free of pressure. Prison experiments and racism: thousands of prisoners were experimented upon at holmesburg prison, Enders and frederick robbins in 1960: the initial stage of the testing involved injecting 30,000 children in the united. States with a placebo, which was useless in the prevention of polio. It was realized statistically, that some of these children would get polio and some would die from it. In the late 1940s over 800 pregnant women in the us were experimented upon by.

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