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Carr, David M. "Pfizer's Epidemic: A Need For International Regulation Of Human Experimentation In Developing Countries." Case Western Reserve Journal Of International Law 35.1 (2003): 15-53. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
Explores the need for international regulation of human experimentation (HE) in developing countries. Legal background behind current international standards concerning HE; Details behind the events that took place in Nigeria between Pfizer and the Nigerian families involved in a lawsuit; Analysis of voluntary consent and enforcement under current international standards. -
RICHARDSON, L. SONG. "When Human Experimentation Is Criminal." Journal Of Criminal Law & Criminology 99.1 (2009): 89-133. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
Medical researchers engaged in human experimentation commit criminal acts seemingly without consequence. Whereas other actors who violate bodily integrity and autonomy are routinely penalized with convictions for assault, fraud, and homicide, researchers escape criminal punishment. This Article begins to scrutinize this undercriminalization phenomenon and provides a framework for understanding why researchers are not prosecuted for their crimes. It argues that their exalted social status, combin -
Philpott, Sean. "Execution By Lethal Injection: Illegal Research?." The Hastings Center Report 44.2 (2014): 11-12. MEDLINE. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
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Paddy, Rawlinson. "Of Mice and Men: Violence and Human Experimentation." State Crime Journal 2013: 72. JSTOR Journals. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
Unethical human experimentation has long been a murky feature of medical research, most notoriously in the death camps of Nazi Germany. Despite the subsequent creation of the Nuremberg Code principles for the protection of human subjects, harmful medical trials continue to be conducted in the name of scientific inquiry and for the advancement of public health. Most, but not all, of the victims are marginalized groups, racially, ethnically and/or socio-economically defined, those for whom justice -
Chaves-Carballo, Enrique. "Clara Maass, Yellow Fever And Human Experimentation." Military Medicine 178.5 (2013): 557-562. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
Clara Louise Maass, a 25-year-old American nurse, died of yellow fever on August 24, 1901, following experimental inoculation by infected mosquitoes in Havana, Cuba. The human yellow fever experiments were initially conducted by MAJ Walter Reed, who first used written informed consent and proved the validity of Finlay's mosquito-vector hypothesis. Despite informed consent form and an incentive of $100 in U.S. gold, human subjects were exposed to a deadly virus. The deaths of Clara Maass and two -
Yu, Xiang, and Wei Li. "Informed Consent And Ethical Review In Chinese Human Experimentation: Reflections On The 'Golden Rice Event'." Biotechnology Law Report 33.4 (2014): 155-160. Business Source Premier. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
The article presents brief information on the human experimentation that aims to promote the development and application of medical technology in order to improve the human condition in China. It talks about informed consent, a key issue in human experimentation, and the guarantor of the fundamental rights possessed by experimental subjects. Information on informed consent that protect the interests of human trial is also offered.