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Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same.
Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present day. [ 3 ] For example, after failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Barry Marshall drank a petri dish of Helicobacter pylori from a patient, and soon developed gastritis, achlorhydria , stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and halitosis ...
Self-administration is, in its medical sense, the process of a subject administering a pharmacological substance to themself. A clinical example of this is the subcutaneous "self-injection" of insulin by a diabetic patient. In animal experimentation, self-administration is a form of operant conditioning where the reward is a drug. This drug can ...
An ethics committee in the European Union is a body responsible for oversight of medical or human research studies in EU member states. Local terms for a European ethics committee include: A Research Ethics Committee (REC) in the United Kingdom [1] A Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC) in the Netherlands. [2]
Associated fields are self-experimentation and citizen science. The concept has been further developed within the Quantified Self community. The first use of the term in a scientific publication was in 2016, [ 2 ] where it was associated with: " an interest in collecting data about their own bodies or lives in order to obtain insights into ...
The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.
Michael Mosley: The Doctor Who Changed Britain aired on Friday on BBC One.
Walter Cannon at Harvard Medical School, circa 1908, a few years before the experiment. In the early 20th century, the understanding of hunger was limited, and it was often considered a purely psychological sensation. However, Walter Cannon, a prominent physiologist, hypothesized that hunger had a physiological basis related to stomach activity ...