Sydney Halpern’s account of postwar US research that deliberately infected hundreds with the disease is shocking – and important for the Covid era
or three decades after the second world war, US scientists and doctors carried out a research programme of striking ambition – and breathtaking moral negligence. They deliberately infected more than 1,000 people, including at least 100 children, with hepatitis, an illness that can trigger chronic liver disease and cancer.
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