The Impact of Health related human research experiments have long been a debatable topic(dilemmas). The agony, mental and physical torture and suffering associated with those historical experiments greatly influenced the contemporary world's view of such experiments. The negative impacts of those trails on people of different age groups, educational backgrounds, and social classes made today's world view them only as tragedies. On the other hand, the progress achieved by those experiments over the past decades have substantially contributed to our present time' science and practice. One of the greatest positive gains of such experiments is that it led to the development (highlighted the importance) of ethics, guidelines and regulations
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The researchers founded that the substance did not only negatively affect the pregnant women but also their developing babies. It was found that four women of the study group ended up having children with malignancies ranging from acute lymphatic leukemia to synovial sarcoma and these children eventually died during the study period. Maternal effects were rashes, bruises, anemia, hair and tooth loss and cancer. Mothers of the control group had no fetal malignancies. The study founded a small but a statistically significant rise in the likelihood of children exposed to radiation to develop cancer later in life. After the documents were disclosed to public by O'Leary, many lawsuits were filed against the government by people affected from radiation experiments. An example of these lawsuits is three of the pregnant women involved in the above mentioned experiments filed a lawsuit against Vanderbilt University and they eventually won $10.3 million in addition to receiving a public apology issued by the school. A major controversial issue related to the radiation experiments is that it was claimed that those experiments were conducted before the development of the code of ethics to govern such practice, however, even if this proven to be true it doesn't justify the fact that they took advantage of the less
The researchers founded that the substance did not only negatively affect the pregnant women but also their developing babies. It was found that four women of the study group ended up having children with malignancies ranging from acute lymphatic leukemia to synovial sarcoma and these children eventually died during the study period. Maternal effects were rashes, bruises, anemia, hair and tooth loss and cancer. Mothers of the control group had no fetal malignancies. The study founded a small but a statistically significant rise in the likelihood of children exposed to radiation to develop cancer later in life. After the documents were disclosed to public by O'Leary, many lawsuits were filed against the government by people affected from radiation experiments. An example of these lawsuits is three of the pregnant women involved in the above mentioned experiments filed a lawsuit against Vanderbilt University and they eventually won $10.3 million in addition to receiving a public apology issued by the school. A major controversial issue related to the radiation experiments is that it was claimed that those experiments were conducted before the development of the code of ethics to govern such practice, however, even if this proven to be true it doesn't justify the fact that they took advantage of the less