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The needle through an infant's nose that betrayed Kobe's hidden experiments
A doctor in Kobe pushes a needle through an infant’s nose during a “checkup” - how did that needle betray them?
The needle through an infant's nose that betrayed Kobe's hidden experiments
In this episode, we follow a chain of medical cases that stretches from Kobe in 1958 back through colonial medicine, wartime programs, and published studies to ask how credentialed scientists normalized experiments on unwitting humans. What was the logic inside institutions that allowed routine procedures to become instruments of inquiry?
Person: Henry Beecher
Date: 1958
Location: Kobe, Japan
Event: covert…
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