To what extent can we adequately study people who do not share our views?
Date Submitted: 12/18/2004 16:50:53
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 11 pages (2911 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Civil Rights
Length: 11 pages (2911 words)
In the 1960s several cases of human rights abuse through research came to light1. In the field of biomedical research, examples include the secret radiation experiments carried out on sick and healthy people by the US Energy Department in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Tuskegee study to investigate the effects of untreated syphilis on illiterate black men by the US Public Health Department (1932-1972)1. In the field of political science, Project Camelot was started …
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