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  2. Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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    A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]

  3. Unethical human experimentation - Wikipedia

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    In 2010 these experiments were revealed by Susan Reverby of Wellesley College, who was researching a book on the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued an official apology to Guatemala. [49] President Barack Obama apologized to President Álvaro Colom, who had called these experiments "a crime against ...

  4. Human subject research - Wikipedia

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    Psychological experiments have also faced ethical criticism due to their manipulation of participants, inducing stress, anxiety, or other forms of emotional distress without informed consent. These experiments raise concerns regarding the respect for the dignity and well-being of the individuals involved. [54]

  5. Human subject research legislation in the United States

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    The Tuskegee syphilis experiment is probably the most infamous case of unethical medical experimentation in the United States. [7] Starting in 1932, investigators recruited 399 impoverished African-American sharecroppers with syphilis for research related to the natural progression of the untreated disease, in hopes of justifying treatment ...

  6. Experimentation on prisoners - Wikipedia

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    Project MKUltra was a CIA-run human experiment program from 1953–1973 where volunteers, prisoners and unwitting subjects were administered hallucinogenic drugs in an attempt to develop incapacitating substances and chemical mind control agents, in an operation run by Sidney Gottlieb. [3] Numerous experiments were done on prisoners throughout ...

  7. Stanford prison experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment has been referenced and critiqued as an example of an unethical psychology experiment, and the harm inflicted on the participants in this and other experiments during the post-World War II era prompted American universities to improve their ethical requirements and institutional review for human experiment subjects in order to ...

  8. Breaching experiment - Wikipedia

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    In the fields of sociology and social psychology, a breaching experiment is an experiment that seeks to examine people's reactions to violations of commonly accepted social rules or norms. Breaching experiments are most commonly associated with ethnomethodology , and in particular the work of Harold Garfinkel .

  9. Donald Ewen Cameron - Wikipedia

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    Donald Ewen Cameron (() 24 December 1901 – () 8 September 1967) [1] was a Scottish-born psychiatrist.He is largely known today for his central role in unethical medical experiments, and development of psychological and medical torture techniques for the Central Intelligence Agency.