10 nonconsensual experiments that led to medical progress

There is a very thin border – a line that is easy to cross and even fuzzier in the field of medicine – where ethical experimentation and the malicious prosecution of knowledge by unethical means meet and perhaps even overlap. What is ethical science in the world of human subjects and who will judge it? Is consent all that is really necessary for an experiment to be considered humane, and if so, how much consent? How many details does a patient need to know to safely reach the doctor's threshold, saying that his consent was actually informed consent? Throughout history,

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