Volunteers were infected with the COVID virus in order to ascertain whether there were cognitive effects of infection. It represented the failure of safeguards against unethical experiments. The ...

It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 364 miles above Earth, the crew of the Inspiration 4 private ...

From Ardor Scribendi, publisher of mainly medical books on dermatology but also on matters that transcend it, comes this massive and thorough review of a horrible subject: the systematic use and abuse ...

The darkest chapter of scientific advancement... Join us as we examine the most horrific human experiments ever conducted in the name of "progress." Our countdown includes MK Ultra, Tuskegee Syphilis ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

An interdisciplinary panel of Harvard affiliates discussed the ethics of possessing human remains for research, education, or exhibition in University collections during a Harvard Medical School ...

UC San Francisco has apologized for its invasive dermatological experiments of the 1960s and 1970s, in which 2,600 state prisoners were used as test subjects for pesticides and herbicides. Above, the ...