S1: Ep. 6: The Most Unethical U.S. Medical Experiments You've Never Heard Of

What is a worthy risk in the name of science? Today we will explore some of the lesser-known, yet most unethical medical experiments in U.S. history. Often prisoners, orphans, or patients at psychiatric or state hospitals were unfairly used as human subjects in these experiments. From shockingly strange experiments involving testicles, to willfully injected people with cancer cells, in this episode we explore the dark beginnings of medical research before the National Research Act and The Belmont Report in the 1970s tighten regulations on the use and treatment of human subjects.

Articles Referenced During Episode:

McGill: Office for Science and Society - 40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study, by Ada McVean

CNN Health - Unethical experiments' painful contributions to today's medicine, by Nina Avramova

Discover Magazine - 5 Unethical Medical Experiments Brought Out of the Shadows of History, by Allison Futterman

NBC News - Ugly past of U.S. human experiments uncovered, by Mike Stobbe

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