ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION
Vera Sharav
AGAINST THEIR WILL: CHILDREN AS MEDICAL TEST SUBJECTS
http://tinyurl.com/nyjvd9o
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Allen Hornblum, co-author of Against Their Will and author of Acres of Skin, and Sentenced to Science
who will moderate the discussion
Gordon Shattuck, a former child test subject
Dr. Judith Newman, Penn State Abington associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies
and co-author of Against Their Will
Karen Alves, the sister of a former child test subject
Vera Sharav, President for Alliance for Human Research Protection
Free Admission
Books will be available for purchase and authors will autograph upon request.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Penn State Abington, Lares Building
1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001
For more information, please call
Regina Broscius at 215-881-7800.
Open Meeting for the public-- Wednesday,
September 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Penn State Abington, Lares Building 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001
Against Their Will by Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman and Gregory Dober, chronicles the history of abusive medical experiments conducted by American physicians from elite academic centers on institutionalized children—after World War II, and beyond the Cold War years. Some of the experiments will be familiar—others not.
In his earlier, highly acclaimed book, Acres of Skin, Mr. Hornblum chronicled the unethical experiments conducted by Dr. Albert Kligman, a highly esteemed, charismatic chairman of the department of dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, whose extensive research on behalf of more than 30 pharmaceutical companies and US government agencies was conducted on inmates at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison between 1951 and 1974.
Penn State Abington, Lares Building 1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001
Against Their Will by Allen Hornblum, Judith Newman and Gregory Dober, chronicles the history of abusive medical experiments conducted by American physicians from elite academic centers on institutionalized children—after World War II, and beyond the Cold War years. Some of the experiments will be familiar—others not.
In his earlier, highly acclaimed book, Acres of Skin, Mr. Hornblum chronicled the unethical experiments conducted by Dr. Albert Kligman, a highly esteemed, charismatic chairman of the department of dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, whose extensive research on behalf of more than 30 pharmaceutical companies and US government agencies was conducted on inmates at Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison between 1951 and 1974.
On Wednesday,
September 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.,
a public discussion at Penn
State in Abington will address the
ethical issues raised by the book, Against
Their Will:
“Scientific
progress and the medical advances it
fosters is a process we can all celebrate, but the
attainment of such triumphs
on the backs of children and other powerless groups makes
their realization
all the less impressive and praiseworthy…Regardless of
whether clinical
trials during the Cold War were designed to learn more about
radiation or the
nature of disease, institutions holding impaired and orphaned
children often
became the epicenter for the investigational studies."
* The ethics of using children as
non-consensual subjects of
medical experiments;
* the ethics of selecting
institutionalized children—society’s
least fortunate members—and subjecting them to painful,
invasive, medical
experiments that study the pathophysiology of disease, involving
risk of serious harm.
Dr.
Kligman also
conducted extensive experiments on children at the New Jersey
State Colonies
for the Feeblemended in Vineland and Woodbine which he
considered ideal
locations for his infectious experiments:
“Large numbers living under confined circumstances
could be inoculated
at will and the course of the disease minutely studied from
its onset…biopsy
material was freely available.”
The
experiments yielded him many millions of dollars which he
shared with the
University of Pennsylvania.
Shortly
after the
atomic bomb blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two premier
research
institutions--Harvard and MIT—conducted radioactive "nutrition"
experiments on state institutionalized children at the Walter
Fernald
School. The research from Dr. Constantine Maletskos'
[radioactive]
nutrition studies at Fernald would eventually be published in
four scientific
journal articles...If anyone reading the articles at the time
thought there was
something objectionable about using institutionalized, mentally
challenged
children as test subjects in experiments incorporating
radioactive material,
there is no record of it."
*Physicians attempt to rationalize the use of institutionalized children, arguing that those institutions provide the necessary isolated, controlled environment for their scientific protocols. However, children at elite Prep schools also live in controlled, isolated environments; yet, physicians have never sought to use those privileged children in potentially harmful experiments.
*Physicians attempt to rationalize the use of institutionalized children, arguing that those institutions provide the necessary isolated, controlled environment for their scientific protocols. However, children at elite Prep schools also live in controlled, isolated environments; yet, physicians have never sought to use those privileged children in potentially harmful experiments.
*The unbroken thread of Eugenics permeates
the culture of physicians
engaged in designing and conducting government-supported
experiments; they appear
to have known which human beings they could risk harming without
penalties—and
those they could not expose to risk.
*Babies injected with radioactive iodine:
At the
University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Dr. Van
Middlesworth experimented
on seven newborn boys--'six Negroes' and 'one
Caucasian'....Realizing that 'the
use of radiation in the very young organism is open to some
question,' he
decided to consult a local group of advisors.”
“The group—a radiologist, a radiation
physicist, two
internists, two pediatricians, a physiologist, and a
pathologist--decided that
injecting I-131 into newborns was acceptable and 'not expected
to be
harmful.'"
The history of medicine is littered with physicians who believed that ethical standards—including the Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm,” the Nuremburg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and federal rules and regulations do not apply to them. The parameters of what constitutes acceptable, ethical research, clearly needs to be determined by a broader public base.
The history of medicine is littered with physicians who believed that ethical standards—including the Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm,” the Nuremburg Code, the Declaration of Helsinki, and federal rules and regulations do not apply to them. The parameters of what constitutes acceptable, ethical research, clearly needs to be determined by a broader public base.
Join us for an eye-opening discussion.
Vera Sharav
AGAINST THEIR WILL: CHILDREN AS MEDICAL TEST SUBJECTS
http://tinyurl.com/nyjvd9o
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Allen Hornblum, co-author of Against Their Will and author of Acres of Skin, and Sentenced to Science
who will moderate the discussion
Gordon Shattuck, a former child test subject
Dr. Judith Newman, Penn State Abington associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies
and co-author of Against Their Will
Karen Alves, the sister of a former child test subject
Vera Sharav, President for Alliance for Human Research Protection
Free Admission
Books will be available for purchase and authors will autograph upon request.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Penn State Abington, Lares Building
1600 Woodland Road, Abington, PA 19001
For more information, please call
Regina Broscius at 215-881-7800.
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