Unethical Human Experimentation

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it, also to see what the human body can endure.

Comparing the twentieth and the twenty first centuries together you will see that we take a whole different look on human experimentation. There is a series of laws and codes such as the the code of professional ethics stating that physicians have an ethical responsibility to the patient. The U.S law, saying that drugs shown to be safe before marketing, lead to the need for human trials. Another was the international code of ethics, that experiments must be scientifically necessary.

It was not until 1962 the first law requires information consent, the FDA empowered to ban drug experimentation in humans. Or that in 1963 and 64 that there are U.S regulations and international ethical guidelines to performing human experimentation.

Without all of the human experimentation, we as a country would not be where we are today with all of our knowledge about the human anatomy. Yes it goes both ways that the studies are in ways bad, but they have brought us this far when it comes to the study physiology and psychology. Along with all of the data that has been recorded and the facts that were written down, scientists are able to perform treatments that men and women would only be able to dream of then. Thankfully, there are now new ways to study the effects of drugs and medicines in order to tell whether or not they are harmful, before using them on another human being.