Lauren Ober talks with bioethesis zohar letteman about the minnesota starvation experiment. She says in research ethics, we can only listen to what people want up to a certain point when it comes to unnecessary harms. Listen to the loudest girl in the world wherever you get your podcastseighteen of the surviving members of the starvation experiment left moral histories behind about their experience.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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