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Alliance for Human Research Protection Fri, 18 Jul 2003 Dear Dr. Campbell and others concerned about ethical research: This is in response to your July 11 comments objecting to AHRP’s criticism of the ethics of two controversial ARDS experiments sponsored by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute conducted at…
The Prison as Laboratory_2002
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential," reads the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which was drafted in direct response to the sheer barbarity of Nazi-era medical experiments on Jews and other captive groups.
Ethics / Science of ARDS Controversy Continues – J Medical Ethics-BMJ
Ethics / Science of ARDS Controversy Continues – J Medical Ethics-BMJ Thu, 6 Oct 2005 The ethics and science of a controversial clinical trial sponsored by the US government and conducted at multiple sites by the ARDS Network comprising of prestigious academic medical centers is the subject of a continuing…
Contemporary Medical Culture and its Moral Vulnerability
An insightful, sobering essay, A Long Shadow: Nazi Doctors, Moral Vulnerability and Contemporary Medical Culture by a student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
IOM Recommends Expanded Research on Prisoners; NEJM Editor Defends TGN1412
Editor of New England Journal of Medicine defends catastrophic experiments, and the Institute of Medicine expands prison drug trials. Question: How many times have these members of the elite put their own life at risk “to advance our knowledge?”
Chief Respiratory Care Mass General Hospital-Harvard-Rejects ARDS Recommendation
A critical editorial by Dr. Robert M Kacmarek, Head of Respiratory Care Services at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Harvard University—the coordinating center for the ARDS Network, calls into question the validity of the ARDS Network recommendation of treating all patients with ALI-ARDS with a fixed, low air ventilation setting (6 mL/ kg).