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6500 BCE
Trephination
Trephination is a medical procedure to cure abnormal behavior once thought was caused by demonic possession. This is important because it is really the first medical procedure for mental illness or abnormal behavior. -
Tuskegee's syphilis study
600 black sharecroppers were studied on syphilis and were not told nor given treatment for having it and many died but the study only stopped because of public outcry. This is impactful because it was carried out by Tuskeegee University which is an hbcu and the people who were used in the study were black people which is kind of contradicting. -
Nazi Concentration camps experiments
Nazi doctors performed horrendous experiments on people in concentration camps during the holocaust killing and injuring millions and permanently traumatizing people. This is impactful because from my knowledge this si the most torture the world has seen in the modern era and is a very impactful part of the world's history. -
B.F Skinner - Operate Conditioning
In 1938 Skinner began using electrical shock therapy on animals. The impacted me because it set off a chain of events that made psychology what it is today. For example, Stanely Milgram had the idea to start using electrical shock therapy on humans because of what Skinner didto animals