What if, at some future date, we were to come across an account of this congress on 'The Use of Human Beings in Research,' and discovered that it had been held in Joppa in 1882? We should believe almost surely that we had been made the victims of some historical prank; it would be...
The article discusses the history and moral foundations of human-subject research. It reviews the ethical questions in unethical biomedical researches done on human subjects at Nazi concentration camps during the World War II and by the Japanese in Manchuria in the 1930s and 1940s. These are ...
Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens. To clarify this point, I will often use the term ‘Sapiens’ to denote members of the species Homo sapiens, while reserving ...
” summarized the problem for feminists that subjectivity is meant to address: that through most of human history, philosophy and history have seen the world through male eyes, seeing other men as part of the subject of history, and seeing women as Other, non-subjects, secondary...
A primary goal of human genetics is to identify DNA sequence variants that influence biomedical traits, particularly those related to the onset and progression of human disease. Over the past 25 years, progress in realizing this objective has been transformed by advances in technology, foundational ...
An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”...
In the United States and Europe, it was six years to the day that the bloodiest conflict in human history had begun; after those six years of savage fighting, the devastation was unprecedented and incalculable. Between sixty and eighty-five million people—the exact figure will never be known...
Part - 4: This is the final chapter of this book and the author has discussed the various developments achieved by human race subsequently and where we stand today. The genetic engineering has opened new vistas of human research and development and scientists are hoping to induce quic...
This is why people bother to argue about their moral views, while on matters of taste they may simply agree to differ. It is important to people that others share their attitudes on moral issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and human rights; they do not care whether others prefer to ...
None of this is to say that history writing has assumed a perfect or completed form. It will never do so: examination of its past reveals remarkable changes in historicalconsciousnessrather than steady progress toward the standards of research and writing that represent the best that historians can...