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Throughout history, prisoners have been frequent participants in scientific, medical and social human subject research. Some of the research involving prisoners has been exploitative and cruel. Many of the modern protections for human subjects evolved in response to the abuses in prisoner research.
He states that the guards were urged to act aggressively towards the prisoners. In his book Humankind: A Hopeful History , he is of the opinion that in similar experiments researchers set up the experiments to create hostility between groups and then interpret the finding to suit their needs.
A leak in 1972 led to cessation of the study and severe legal ramifications. It has been widely regarded as the "most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history". [61] Because of the public outrage, in 1974 Congress passed the National Research Act, to provide for protection of human subjects in experiments. The National Commission for ...
After Nazi doctors conducted experiments on prisoners in concentration camps during World War II, Resneck pointed out, the Nuremburg Code of 1947 discussed the importance of voluntary consent.
In many of the studies, a large portion of the subjects were poor, racial minorities, or prisoners. Many of these experiments violated US law even at the time and were in some cases directly sponsored by government agencies or rogue elements thereof, including the Centers for Disease Control, the United States military, and the Central ...
Eileen Welsome, The plutonium files: America's secret medical experiments in the Cold War, Dial Press, 1999, ISBN 0-385-31402-7; Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House, Inc., 2008, ISBN 0-7679-1547-X
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81 years ago today, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island. On August 11, 1934, the "most dangerous" prisoners in the United States were put on the mysterious island situated 1.5 ...