Surgery On Algernon: An Analysis

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The change was groundbreaking for the scientific community in the ways that they found we can boost people’s intelligence if even for a short amount of time. It came full circle because he started out mentally retarded and in the middle he got smarter but ended being retarded again. In the end he was the same because he was almost a completely different person when he was intelligent and almost doesn't remember any of it in the end. It was worth it because the scientists can study and make the surgery permanent.

The surgery was not morally or ethically right because the scientists did not know how long the experiment would last. When they first tried the surgery on Algernon they did not wait the specified, by the scientific community,

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