Human subjects research - famous violations
- Overviews of many famous examples:
- As part of an overview of the evolution of human subjects protection from the University of Waterloo Office of Research Ethics Resource page
- University of New Hampshire overview
- Behavioral research examples
- Vidich & Besman's study of a small rural community (1958): Small town in mass society: Class, power and religion in a rural community
- Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience (1966; wikipedia)
- Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment (1971) (website; Stanford University News article)
- Humphrey's Tearoom trade: Impersonal sex in public places (1970; wikipedia)
- Foulks' work on alcoholism in Barrow Alaska (1979)
- Biomedical research examples:
- Tuskegee syphilis study (wikipedia), ASPH curriculum Module 2 covering Tuskegee history, and another link from Michigan State University
- Ellen Roche, a medical experiment participant (NEJM article and others: article1; article2)
- Jesse Gelsinger (wikipedia)
- Jewish chronic disease hospital cancer experiments without informed consent
- Nazi war crimes (wikipedia page on Nazi human experimentation)
- Willowbrook State School for mentally retarded and its medical studies (wikipedia)
- Recent examples
REFERENCES
Vidich, Arthur J., and Joseph Bensman. Small town in mass society: Class, power, and religion in a rural community. University of Illinois Press, 1968.
O’Toole, Kathleen. "The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years." Stanford University News Service 8 (1997): 1797.
Steinbrook, Robert. "Protecting research subjects—the crisis at Johns Hopkins." N Engl J Med 346.9 (2002): 716-20.