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Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern incarnation of ethics has often been considered a product of the second half of the twentieth century, as enshrined in international laws and codes, but these authors remind us that this territory has long been debated, considered, and revisited as a fundamental part of the scientific enterprise that privileges humans as ideal subjects for advancing research.
Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insigh...
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Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and Facing Eugenics (University of Toronto Press, 2013).
Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is currently writing a study of experiment during the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution. He has recently edited, with Bernie Lightman and Gordon McOuat, Circulating Knowledge, East and West (Brill, 2013), and is currently completing, with Trevor Levere and Hugh Torrens, The Democratic Vision of Thomas Beddoes; Science, Medicine and Reform.
Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is currently writing a study of experiment during the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution. He has recently edited, with Bernie Lightman and Gordon McOuat, Circulating Knowledge, East and West (Brill, 2013), and is currently completing, with Trevor Levere and Hugh Torrens, The Democratic Vision of Thomas Beddoes; Science, Medicine and Reform.
Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and Facing Eugenics (University of Toronto Press, 2013).
Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the...
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