Men of peace and the search for the perfect pesticide: conscientious objectors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and typhus control research.

摘要

People serve as research subjects for numerous reasons, such as to receive medical services, to earn compensation, to fulfill course requirements, and to further knowledge. Given the history of research abuses in the United States-for example, the U.S. Public Health Service study of untreated syphilis (i.e., the Tuskegee Study), the Willowbrook hepatitis studies, and the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital cancer experiments-bioethicists and regulatory officials seek to ensure that prospective subjects are protected from entering into a study unknowingly, unwillingly, or without fully comprehending the nature of their involvement and the benefits and risks of participation.