Hepatitis
mardi 22 février 2022 à 20:50For three decades, 1942 to 1972, American scientists intentionally infected over a thousand subjects with hepatitis to study what would happen.
I can't tell from this book review what, if anything, the subjects were told about what was going to be done to them. At one extreme, they may have been forced outright. At the other extreme, they could have been offered a good deal given their situations, and asked for informed consent -- but the text seems to imply that the experimenters did not do that. What did they do? This seems to be the crucial moral question.