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The Drug That Left Soldiers Mad: The Lariam Cover-Up Revealed
The Drug That Left Soldiers Mad: The Lariam Cover-Up Revealed
An X scratched on a single sheet in 1900 Cuba may be one of the oldest surviving informed consent marks - but the signature-less form sits against two and a half millennia of medical practice that often kept patients in the dark. Who pressed that mark, in which language, and did they understand they were agreeing to experiments that could kill them?
In this episode, we trace the paper trail from Major Walter Reed’s three surviving forms to ancient medical codes and isolated precedents, showing how that lone X became the beginning…
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