Human Experimentation Research Paper

Human experimentation Since the beginning of mankind we have managed to be the dominate species of the Earth; however, we are far from peaceful with warfare, slavery, starvation, and experimenting on our own kind. Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. Before, during, and after WWII, Nazi’s conducted many medical experiments on the Gypsies, Slavs (Large group of Ethnolinguistic in Europe), and Jews they held in concentration camps. Why were they driven to use humans for their experiments? Tyson says, “Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude...”. Nazis used prisoners and other unwilling patients to test their theories. “Several Of the seventy or more medical-research projects conducted by the Nazi between the fall of 1939 and the spring of 1945 were conducted at Auschwitz (“Auschwitz Medical Experimentation). Well over two hundred doctors were involved in the operation of concentration camps, conduction’ Selektionen’ medical services, and research.” (Williams). Among the two hundred scientists Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal physician, performed studies such as high altitude, freezing, poison, and many more. “Some of these experiments had legitimate scientific purposes, though the methods that were used violated the canons of medical ethics. Others were racial in nature, designed to advance Nazi racial theories. Most were simply bad science” (Bard). With the high altitude study simulated to find out best ways to …show more content…
We have risen to be the most dominant species on our planet and managed to keep it that way since mankind was born. Experimentation on humans is cruel and inhuman; however, it does promise a better understanding of the human body’s abilities, advanced medicines, faster medical treatment, and better medical