Research Catalog

Title

Human guinea pigs : experimentation on man / M.H. Pappworth.

Author

Pappworth, M. H. (Maurice Henry)

Publication

• Boston : Beacon Press, [1967]
• ©1967

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Additional Authors

• Dr. Joseph R. Stanton Human Life Issues Library and Resource Center former owner. sch
• Value of Life Committee former owner. sch
• Beacon Press publisher.

Description

xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 228 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

• Human experimentation in medicine
• Medical ethics
• Medicine, Experimental
• Human Experimentation
• Ethics, Medical
• Expérimentation humaine en médecine
• Éthique médicale
• Human experimentation in medicine
• Medical ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The subject -- Recent history -- The risk to patients -- The principle of medical morality -- Experiments on infants and children -- Experiments on pregant women -- Experiments on mental defectives and the mentally sick -- Experiments on prison inmates -- Experiments on the dying and the old -- Experiments on the experimenters themselves -- Experiments on non-patient volunteers -- Experiments on patients awaiting operations and as extensions of operations -- The dangers of exposure to radiation -- Patients as controls -- The inducement of illness in subjects -- Experiments on patients with heart disease -- Research on kidney diseases -- Experiments in which new drugs are tested -- Ethical principles -- Legal considerations -- Proposed legislation -- Real volunteers -- The return of the physician-friend.

LCCN

68012844

OCLC

• 25433415
• SCSB-10302449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library