My name is Camila Anderson and I believe human experimentation is ethical. Human
experimentation has been going on for hundreds of years, with a lot of knowledge learned, with
lives saved. Thanks to human experimentation, the human lifespan has increased, infant deaths
dropped by 75%, and diseases believed incurable are cured. Human experimentation has given
us more knowledge about our bodies that animals nor technology could ever provide. One group
of people can save an entire population.
As many people know, human experimentation has been going on for years, and is still very
well legal. Although before, things were very different than the way they are now. During World
War II, many experiments on prisoners in the camps were conducted.
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Many were conducted on volunteers or
prisoners with consent. Although volunteers and prisoners are seen as less, they were still treated
after as best they could. In many experiments the volunteer can receive money or a prisoner can
be pardoned.
In 1914, a doctor conducted an experiment one twelve volunteer prisoners to solve the
crisis of pellagra. He believed that the cause of pellagra was because of the malnutrition of the
poorer people in the South. He put the prisoners into two groups. One group was fed the diet of
the Southerners, and the other a healthy diet. As he expected, the group fed the Southern diet
fell ill within a few months. Finally, when given fresh meat and vegetables, the pellagra symptoms
vanished, and the prisoners were pardoned.
Edward Jenner, an English Doctor, an English Doctor, was still a medical student when he
noticed milkmaids who contracted cowpox did not catch smallpox. While smallpox lead to very
dangerous symptoms, cowpox only produced blisters. Jenner injected fluid from a cowpox blister
into an eight year old boy with smallpox. Other than a blister, he fully recovered. After when