Josef Mengele’s experiments were just a few of many performed on human beings throughout the course of medical history. Around the same timeframe as Mengele’s unethical human experiments, the United States Public Health Service was conducting a despicable experiment of their own, despite the United States being the country who put an end to Mengele’s experiments. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study began in 1932. Over the course of the following 40 years, the USPHS studied the progress of syphilis in 399 black men, most of whom were “illiterate sharecroppers.” These men were not given even the opportunity to provide consent for the study to take place. The only thing they knew was that they were being treated for “bad blood.” In reality, they were
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Levin’s studies, by today’s standards, are a prime example of this type of unethical experiment. There was nothing to be gained from this, because electrocution is not a form of treatment for anything. Sending volts of electricity through the human body will damage the nervous system at the least. Portions of Mengele’s experiments were more accurately defined as torture sessions as well. He pushed the human body past its physical limits through experiments ranging from freezing and warming repeatedly to the infamous twin experiments (Bulow, n.d.). These types of experiments, even if information can be collected from them, are too harmful to be deemed acceptable as …show more content…
The word care hardly suits the experiments discussed in this report; none of these “doctors” exemplified any sort of concern or interest in the actual well-being of their subjects. The USPHS didn’t care whether the men they were studying got any better; their only goal was collecting information from their bodies when they met their end. Mengele didn’t care whether the men, women, children, and twins that he performed such cruel experiments on were even surviving, let alone healthy; his only goal was to see how much the human body could handle in several situations. Levin didn’t care whether his subjects were happy with being forced into electric torture; his only goal was to try to fix something that wasn’t broken in the first place. These people can hardly be called doctors, because they did not exemplify the care and concern that they are supposed to as illustrated by the Hippocratic
Levin’s studies, by today’s standards, are a prime example of this type of unethical experiment. There was nothing to be gained from this, because electrocution is not a form of treatment for anything. Sending volts of electricity through the human body will damage the nervous system at the least. Portions of Mengele’s experiments were more accurately defined as torture sessions as well. He pushed the human body past its physical limits through experiments ranging from freezing and warming repeatedly to the infamous twin experiments (Bulow, n.d.). These types of experiments, even if information can be collected from them, are too harmful to be deemed acceptable as …show more content…
The word care hardly suits the experiments discussed in this report; none of these “doctors” exemplified any sort of concern or interest in the actual well-being of their subjects. The USPHS didn’t care whether the men they were studying got any better; their only goal was collecting information from their bodies when they met their end. Mengele didn’t care whether the men, women, children, and twins that he performed such cruel experiments on were even surviving, let alone healthy; his only goal was to see how much the human body could handle in several situations. Levin didn’t care whether his subjects were happy with being forced into electric torture; his only goal was to try to fix something that wasn’t broken in the first place. These people can hardly be called doctors, because they did not exemplify the care and concern that they are supposed to as illustrated by the Hippocratic