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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker, in which the author examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past and present psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly antipsychotics. The book is ...
The book is divided into three parts: the first is about the role of African Americans in early American medicine and the cultural memory of medical experimentation; the second covers the twentieth century with a focus on vulnerable research subjects, while the last examines recent cases of medical abuse and research.
A 1953 article in the medical/scientific journal Clinical Science [110] described a medical experiment in which researchers intentionally blistered the skin on the abdomens of 41 children, who ranged in age from 8 to 14, using cantharide. The study was performed to determine how severely the substance injures/irritates the skin of children.
Klitzman: I think that the curriculum in many medical schools would benefit from providing more information on the Holocaust and Nazi experiments, and other violations of research ethics that have ...
Investigation by the American Medical Association showed that a poisonous compound, diethylene glycol, was present in the drug. [2] The AMA concluded that the drug caused more than a hundred deaths – yet the contemporary law did not require the company that released it to test it (the existing laws required only that a drug be clearly labeled ...
None of the patients were told about the experiment, nor did the doctors ask for their consent. See Eileen Welsome's book The Plutonium Files. [10] Doctors' Trial: United States 1946 German medical doctors went on criminal trial for Nazi human experimentation. See The Years of Extermination. Guatemala syphilis experiments: U.S./ Guatemala 1946–48
A book called “9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America” attempts to answer which presidents may have been bad for the country. ... the issues facing Americans today "didn't start with Obama."
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