Module 5 Presentations

05/07/2024

The Willowbrook study (1963-1966)

• The studies carried out at the Willowbrook State School (mentally handicapped children). • Gain understanding of the natural history of infectious hepatitis and test the effectiveness of the agent for inoculating against hepatitis. • Parents were provided with information describing drug administration as vaccination.

• Around 700 children were deliberated infected by hepatitis.

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The Willowbrook study (1963-1966)

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Additional cases (1)

• In Japan, Unit 371 experimented with prisoner vivisection, dismemberment and induced epidemics on a very large scale from the late 1920s onward. • 1940 in the United States, four hundred prisoners in Chicago were infected with malaria to study the effects of new and experimental drugs for the disease. • Beginning in 1942, mustard gas experiments were conducted on 4,000 United States servicemen in order to study the effects on the human nervous system. These tests were concluded in 1945.

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