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6500 BCE
Trephination
Medical practitioners at the time believed many disorders were a result of a demonic possession. To release the evil spirit inhabiting the body, they would drill a hole into the victim's skull. -
Tuskeegee Syphilis Study
600+ black residents from Macon county, Alabama were studied to collect information on the effects of disease (on a race that was not white). Infected victims were not aware of the disease they carried, not educated of how it spread, and were refused penicillin. Many wives and offspring contracted syphilis. -
Nazi Concentration Camp Experiments
Nazi medical professionals performed experiments on anyone not of aryan descent. These experiments included sleep deprivation, starvation, surgeries without anesthesia, and more. -
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Nuremburg Code
A set of principles was created to protect any future human participants in experiments. -
Milgram Experiment
Selected participant was designated as a teacher, and commanded by an authority figure to induce electrical shocks to victims. However, the "victims" were not actually shocked. The authority figure told the teacher to increase the voltage at designated intervals to observe at what point the teacher would decide to stop inflicting pain onto the victim.