What has happened in the decades since World War II has differed only in degree. The subjects were deemed subhuman ordinary guidelines could therefore be suspended. These barbaric exercises in pseudoscience grew out of assumptions of racial superiority. The German and Japanese human experiments of the 1930s and 1940s horrified the world when they came to light. Those limits are in constant need of redefinition, for the goals and the techniques have become both more refined and more secretive. The ethical limits governing use of the human body in experimentation have been breached, redefined, and breached again-from the moment the first plague-ridden corpse was heaved over the fortifications of a besieged medieval city to the use of cutting-edge gene therapy today. Knowledge has a price often that price has been human suffering. Behind the bright promise of life-saving vaccines and life-enhancing technologies lies the true cost of the efforts to develop them. Science, as Andrew Goliszek proves in this compendious, chilling, and eye-opening book, has always had its dark side.
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