The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

Monthly Archives: September, 2011

Ethically Impossible

From 1946-1948, a team of medical researchers in the United States Public Health Service intentionally infected more than 1,300 Guatemalan prison inmates, psychiatric patients, commercial sex workers and soldiers with sexually transmitted diseases. The team also used children in diagnostic testing. Done completely without consent, their experiments resulted in a living hell for many of [...]