Conscientious objectors had been used as medical guinea pigs. Historian sarah tracy is researching the minnesota starvation experiment. The n yu bioethesis, art chaplin says it's hard for scientists now to find an easy answer when it comes to the starvation experiment.
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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