The Shocking History of Human Medical Experimentation in the United States

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Human experimentation -- the practice of subjecting live human beings

to science experiments that are sometimes cruel, painful, or deadly --

is a major part of U.S. history that you won't find in most history or

science books. It is still continuing today. Here are a few examples,

out of many more. They are not for the faint of heart:

 

1845: J. Marion Sims, later hailed as the " father of gynecology, "

performs medical experiments on enslaved African women without

anesthesia. These women would usually die of infection soon after

surgery. Because of his belief that the movement of newborns' skull

bones during protracted births causes trismus, he uses a shoemaker's

awl, a pointed tool shoemakers use to make holes in leather, to

practice moving the skull bones of babies born to enslaved mothers.

 

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Sheena Judd

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