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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2022 16:41:53 GMT
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Post by potet on Feb 25, 2022 9:04:18 GMT
In England, in the 1970s, there was a paperback book exposing British physicians experimenting cures on retarded children kept in institutions for that purpose. [sorry, I've forgotten the title]
During the post-war period, one of the issues was how far can experimenters use human beings to improve medical knowledge, find cures, and prevent malformations.
I have just retrieved the title: Private Conscience Public Morality by Brian INGLIS.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2022 13:01:06 GMT
In England, in the 1970s, there was a paperback book exposing British physicians experimenting cures on retarded children kept in institutions for that purpose. [sorry, I've forgotten the title] During the post-war period, one of the issues was how far can experimenters use human beings to improve medical knowledge, find cures, and prevent malformations. I'm sure they've done it a lot throughout history to any disadvantaged person, be it child or adult. Imagine all the experimenting on people who lack credibility like in psychiatric hospitals. These are doctors who everyone respects performing experiments. Years ago there was a German establishment coming to Greece collecting the (very happy, in my opinion) stray dogs. Supposedly they were finding homes for them. The neighborhood Greeks find out later they were taking the dogs to a lab and using them "for medical research." Everyone was devasted. So when some kind of helpful foreigner shows up now wanting to "help" the dogs, we're all wary. There is evil all around and sometimes it is "respectable" seeming. |
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Post by And still Kevin 2024 on Feb 25, 2022 13:02:17 GMT
Potential slaves, because they spoke a strange language to us 'upright' citizens, lived in mud huts as hunter gatherers, who were not Christian, and, incredibly, because of how they looked, as another form of ape, were often thought of as nothing but beasts of Burdon, to be bought and sold (and even this went on long before them being captured and shipped to America) and to do with what one pleased. Thankfully the UK were the last to join in this trade, and the first to stop and campaign against it
It's not just coloured people. In the UK 'commoners' were considered to be property by the 'better' classes. This even went on as far as WW1, the aftermath in the UK as the peasants thought, hang on a moment, we want something for this, hence, partly came the NHS and more rights to vote. But even so it carried on to WW 2 where armies, etc, were simply considered as gun fodder. (Churchill did not hesitate to send in 100,000 men to be killed just as a diversion.) And of course in Victorian times we had illegal grave robbing for medical teaching, and nefarious medical practice against live unfortunate people, ones who often would not be missed.
So such history is no real surprise. To those who know it, at least.
But in the USA, and here to perhaps a greater degree (because it was not a race issue but applied to everyone) due to Reformers such as Dickens etc., and various MPs, the peasants eventually got a much better deal and such practices against them were outlawed.
Medical trials on humans are still undertaken, but voluntary, and often with pay, some doctors even give themselves diseases to see if the latest cure they have developed, works.
Thankfully things change.
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