What price knowledge. En experimentation on Humans.

Human Behavior

What Price Knowledge

        I feel there is a expressed need for knowledge in todays society, barely

there is also a distinct point when it has gone too far. It has gone too far

by conducting experiments on people without letting them know the

consequences and side effects that leave place upon them. It has also

reached an extreme when the person becomes physically or mentally

impaired afterwards the experiments . I see this treatment as both immoral

and wrong; there is no reason to harm a normally healthy person for some

advancement in scientific knowledge .

        In doing search for this paper I collect found numerous ex generouss where

humans were used as guinea pigs or killed. One example of this

misconduct was in 1959 it was a common practice for drug companies to

provide samples of experimental drugs, to physicians, who were wherefore paid to

gather data on their patients taking the drugs. Physicians throughout the

country prescribed there drugs to patients without their knowledge or bear

as part of this loosely controlled research. exercising of this was the drug

sedative thalidomide was given to vast number of pregant women and caused

thousands of birth defects in newborn infant infants. Because of this event, the

Kefauver - Harris amendmants to food, drug and cosmetic act were passed

requiring informal consent be obtained in the testing of these drugs.

         Another rascality research render was doctors injected live cancer

cells into underprivileged elderly patients without their permission.



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research went forward without review by the hospitals research committee

and over the objections of three physicians consulted, who argued that the

proposed subjects were unfit of giving ample consent to participate. The

revealing of the experiment served to make both officials and the Board of

Regents of the University of the...

There is a very important experiment that has been done on the American public that you didnt mention, the vaccination. Many vaccines have been approved without much research only to find they cause much harm. They have been cognize to cause serious problems in children, and over the years, some of them have improved by using our children as research subjects. I do agree with you that it is immoral and unethical to do these projects, but unfortunately, too many people dont want to know and consent without arguement.

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