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24: Self Experimentation, Amputation Archaeology, and Learning to Love PowerPoint

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What Is the Moral of Human Experimentation?

"It's much more ethically acceptable when the human experimentation is on yourself," she says. "We're mainly going to be talking about the 1900s, but for the first example, let's go back to the 1500s." She cites a Venetian physician who spent 30 years eating, sleeping and working on a large scale so he could measure fluctuations in his body weight compared to what went into it.

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