Talk:Medical experimentation in Africa

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I tired to be neutral in this article. Im not sure how this can be improved on particulary with the subject matter. I think I stated facts and not opinions, but since this is collaborative, people can improve on it. I tired to compare it with similar articles about medical experimentaion. I found one dealing with Nazi Germany (see below) but I failin to see where my article is failing in neutrality in comparison. Any feedback would be appreciated so that the differences between the style of writing,nuetrality can be aired out.....

"Medical experiments Main article: Nazi human experimentation

Block 10, the medical experimentation blockGerman doctors performed a wide variety of experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Bayer, then a subsidiary of IG Farben, bought prisoners to use as guinea pigs for testing new drugs.[32]

The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death". Particularly interested in research on identical twins, Mengele performed cruel experiments on them, such as inducing diseases in one twin and killing the other when the first died to perform comparative autopsies. He also took a special interest in dwarfs, and he deliberately induced gangrene in twins, dwarfs and other prisoners to "study" the effects.[33]

Mengele, at the behest of fellow Nazi physcian Kurt Heissmeyer, was responsible for picking the twenty Jewish children to be used in Heissmeyers' pseudoscientific medical experiments at the Neuengamme concentration camp. These children, at the conclusion of the experiments, were infamously hanged from wall hooks in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school in Hamburg.

Jewish skeleton collection The Jewish skeleton collection was obtained from among a pool of 115 inmates at Auschwitz, chosen for their racial characteristics. Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe, were responsible for collecting the skeletons for the collection of the Anatomy Institute at the Reich University of Strasbourg in the Alsace region of Occupied France. Due to a typhus epidemic, the candidates chosen for the skeleton collection were quarantined in order to prevent them from becoming ill and ruining their value as anatomical specimens; from a letter written by Sievers in June 1943: "Altogether 115 persons were worked on, 79 were Jews, 30 were Jewesses, 2 were Poles, and 4 were Asiatics. At the present time these prisoners are segregated by sex and are under quarantine in the two hospital buildings of Auschwitz."

The collection was sanctioned by Heinrich Himmler and under the direction of August Hirt.

Ultimately 86 of the inmates were shipped to Natzweiler-Struthof. The deaths of these 86 inmates was, in the words of Hirt, "induced" at a jury rigged gassing facility, at Natzweiler-Struthof on July 30, 1943 and their corpses; 57 men and 29 women were sent to Strasbourg. Josef Kramer who would become the last commandant of Bergen Belsen personally carried out the gassing. In 1944 with the approach of the allies, there was concern over the possibility of the corpses being discovered, at this point they had still not been defleshed. The first part of the process for this "collection" was to make anatomical casts of the bodies prior to reducing them to skeletons. In September, 1944 Sievers telegrammed Brandt: "The collection can be defleshed and rendered unrecognizable. This, however, would mean that the whole work had been done for nothing-at least in part-and that this singular collection would be lost to science, since it would be impossible to make plaster casts afterwards."

Brandt and Sievers would be indicted, tried and convicted in the Doctor's Trial in Nuremberg. Hirt committed suicide in Schonenbach, Austria, on June 2, 1945 with a gunshot to the head.[34][35] The names and biographical information of the murder victims were published in the book Die Namen der Nummern (The Names of the Numbers) by German historian Dr. Hans-Joachim Lang.[36]"

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MsTingaK (talk) 17:38, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Explain word "iatrophobia"

The word iatrophobia does neither have an article in the engl. wikipedia, nor is it mentioned in many other articles. It might be helpful to explain its meaning in one short sentence, otherwise many readers will be very confused (or need to google the definition). --37.49.100.138 (talk) 08:16, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Removed material

I've removed a section because it was taken almost verbatim from the NY Times source it cited -- one of the students in Education Program:Rice University/Poverty, Justice, Human Capabilities Section 1 (Fall 2013) noticed it. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:55, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Clean up

• Contents reordering: now moving from most relevant to least relevant
• Introduction: I removed a statement that did not match its citation. The statement was that some have claimed incidents where informed consent has been absent, however the citation regards an experiment showing how informed consent can be theoretically be manipulated. The citation is relevant to the article, and remains in other sections of the article. I also shortened and clarified the intro leaving specifics for lower on the page.
• Specific Incidents: edits for clarity. Also, added consistent structure for subheadings: [type of experiment] in [location] - [time period]
• Codes of ethics and poverty sections: I simplified and clarified. It contains the same content, but condensed to short paragraphs by removing unnecessary subheadings and redundant text.
• Iatrophobia: As noted others on this talk page, this word is very obscure and unnecessary. I changed the subheading to "Effects on legitimate medicine"
• Perception: this content is more appropriate as a specific incident, so I moved it to that section

Jmattthew (talk) 21:24, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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