The doctors took experimental bacteria and used it to treat patients, essentially making them test subjects under the pretense that it could cure them. The bacteria were not approved for humans. It violated the beneficence because it was not clear that the bacteria would help the patient advance while the bacteria was working. Nonmaleficence was violated because harm was done to the patients; they died after failed the experimental procedure. These doctors acted unethically in an attempt to cure someone and publish
The doctors took experimental bacteria and used it to treat patients, essentially making them test subjects under the pretense that it could cure them. The bacteria were not approved for humans. It violated the beneficence because it was not clear that the bacteria would help the patient advance while the bacteria was working. Nonmaleficence was violated because harm was done to the patients; they died after failed the experimental procedure. These doctors acted unethically in an attempt to cure someone and publish