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The Doctor Who Challenged Death: Jack Kevorkian's Fatal Choice
The Doctor Who Challenged Death: Jack Kevorkian's Fatal Choice
Fear and moral outrage: between 1946 and 1948 more than 1,300 Guatemalans-many psychiatric patients, prisoners, soldiers, sex workers, orphans and leprosy patients-were deliberately infected with syphilis by U.S.-funded researchers who never obtained informed consent; how did a $1,500 payment and routine paperwork open the doors to experiments even as Nuremberg trials condemned similar abuses?
In this episode, we lay out the facts as recorded in the recovered files: who ran the programs, how subjects were selected, the role of…
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