How would you feel if something was taken from your body without your consent or if an experiment was performed on you without your consent? Many times while people are in the operating room under anesthesia doctors take things from them, calls, blood samples, etc. and most of the time they never find out until it’s too late. People are even experimented on without giving permission, experiments that are so gruesome you can’t even imagine. Taking things or performing experiments on humans without their consent is unethical and just plain wrong, sadly enough that is happens too often. Would you want something like this being done to you? In August of 1942, in the middle of WWII, so called “freezing experiments” were conducted on prisoners at Dachau concentration camp. Things like placing prisoners in baths of ice for a much as three hours to leaving them outside naked at below freezing temperatures. Experiments such as these were conducted primarily for the German Air Force, to see how hypothermia could be treated. (Levine) The German Army performed experiments like these on the “Jews” because they believe that the Jewish was worthless and had no reason to live. The is unethical in the sense that, no matter the race a person is a person, and no one should be tortured like that. Other things could have been tested instead of humans, people lost their lives because of this. Nothing can replace a life lost. Auschwitz, Poland was a concentration camp were inhumane experiments of camp prisoners were conducted. Dr, Carl Clauberg experimented with sterilization in the camp, Clauberg created a non-surgical mass sterilization that consisted of introducing the female reproductive organs to a chemical irritant that produced severe inflammation. (Levine) Most of these women in this experiment died, others were killed to do autopsy’s. Dr. Horst Schumann performed experiments with “X-ray Sterilization”. Schumann would expose the women’s ovaries and the men’s testes to X-rays, this would produce severe burns on the belly, groin, and buttocks areas of the subjects. (Levine) Many subjects died from complications, others dealt with severe burns that were inoperative to healing. Dr. Josef Mengele held a Ph.D. and a medical doctorate. Mengele took the gypsy’s out of the camp and performed experiments to see how the body’s organs worked while still alive, when they died organs were saved and put in jars. (Levine) Mengele also performed experiments on dwarfs and persons with physical disabilities. Many other doctors performed unethical and inhumane procedures on the prisoners that resided at the camp. During this time there were already laws in place that required written consent to perform such procedures, but the Nazi’s didn’t look at the prisoners as anyone that needed to live. This is wrong on so many levels, a person is a person no matter the religion race or ethical background. The doctors were eventually tried and sentenced at the end of WWII. Dr. Josef Mengele conducted horrible experiments on twins at Auschwitz. Twins would be photographed carefully. Twins would be tortured for hours and hours to see if they could feel each other’s pain. They would be forced to sit in scalding hot bath’s
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However, this unethical situation happens far too often in our society. The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a story of a women named Henrietta Lacks that had cancer and without her knowledge much less her consent her cells taken and continued grow outside of her body, which helped make and discover many different wonderful things in the medical field and the world of science. (Skloot) Much like Henrietta, Holocaust victims were not informed of the experiments that were being on them, and Henrietta nor were her family informed that her cells were being taking and used for advances in the medical field or the world of science. If advancing in these fields mean so much to the doctors why don’t they perform these horrible experiments on themselves? They feel as though that are too valuable to loose, so it’s better to use someone else, someone who has a family and children. This is wrong and must come to an end. Don’t kill innocent people to make yourself look better because you came up with a cure of a
However, this unethical situation happens far too often in our society. The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a story of a women named Henrietta Lacks that had cancer and without her knowledge much less her consent her cells taken and continued grow outside of her body, which helped make and discover many different wonderful things in the medical field and the world of science. (Skloot) Much like Henrietta, Holocaust victims were not informed of the experiments that were being on them, and Henrietta nor were her family informed that her cells were being taking and used for advances in the medical field or the world of science. If advancing in these fields mean so much to the doctors why don’t they perform these horrible experiments on themselves? They feel as though that are too valuable to loose, so it’s better to use someone else, someone who has a family and children. This is wrong and must come to an end. Don’t kill innocent people to make yourself look better because you came up with a cure of a