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10 Disturbing Cases Of Unethical STI Experiments
Across the globe, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a huge problem. However, some of the most unethical of experiments have led to genuine breakthroughs in treatment of STIs.
At a certain point, the first human is going to have to try an experimental drug or procedure for progress in treatment research to occur. The dangers sometimes seem in direct conflict with the Hippocratic Oath, which states that medical practitioners must “utterly reject harm and mischief.”
[1] Here, we document cases of morality deeply skewed yet peppered with the hope of improving treatment for STIs.
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Even after an effective treatment of syphilis was discovered, some scientists were still concerned with finding an effective prophylaxis rather than working on bettering the existing treatment technique. And after reading about the clinical effectiveness of the orvus-mapharsen prophylaxis that Drs. Arnold and Mahoney proved effective in rabbits, some researchers decided to pursue human experimentation of this prophylaxis.
And despite the fact that the article describing these rabbit experiments noted that such experiments in humans would be ethically impossible, posted at the Bioethics Archive at Georgetown University, some researchers from the United States, with funding from the government, decided to go ahead and try it anyway.