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This resulted in at least 83 deaths. [12] In October 2010, the US formally apologized to Guatemala for conducting these experiments. Skid Row Cancer Study: United States New York State 1950s More than 1200 homeless men from Lower Manhattan were convinced with promises of food and shelter to have their prostates biopsied by a Dr. Perry Hudson.
In incidents throughout the 1950s, former Unit 731 members infected prisoners and mental health patients with deadly diseases. [37] In 1958, a large number of infants were brought to Kobe Medical School and forcibly administered sugar by having needles inserted through their noses and into their stomachs.
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]
Case Ruling Right 1976 Profitt v. Florida: Permitted comparison of mitigating and aggravating factors to decide death penalty decisions. [3] See also Furman v. Georgia (1972), and Gregg v. Georgia (1976) 1st 1986 Ford v. Wainwright: Preventing the execution [capital punishment] of the insane, requiring an evaluation of competency and an ...
As a response to the dehumanization by human experiment, the Nuremberg Code and Helsinki Code in 1971 were developed to govern ethics in medical research. Research like this deserves the need for informed consent in any type of research in general, and it should prohibit experiments where injury, disability, or death to the participant is ...
Date Person(s) Age Country of disappearance Circumstances Outcome Time spent missing or unconfirmed 1950 J.K. Rideout: 37–38 China J.K. Rideout, a British linguist and professor of Oriental Studies at both the University of Sydney and the University of Hong Kong, disappeared on 16 February 1950.
Quinlan's case continues to raise important questions in moral theology, bioethics, euthanasia, legal guardianship and civil rights. Her case has affected the practice of medicine and law around the world. A significant outcome of her case was the development of formal ethics committees in hospitals, nursing homes and hospices. [1]
In court cases, like the Karen Ann Quinlan case [11] and the Elizabeth Bouvia [12] cases, the courts had highlighted the differences between dying from refusing treatment, and dying from suicide. However, in his concurring opinion in Cruzan , Justice Scalia noted that this distinction could be "merely verbal" if death is sought "by starvation ...