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The Prison As Laboratory

Experimental medical research on inmates is on the rise.

By Silja J.A. Talvi

“The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential,” reads the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which was drafted in direct response to the sheer barbarity of Nazi-era medical experiments on Jews and other captive groups. “[The] person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice,… return to article

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