In preparation for this week, I spent the weekend reading several books that include Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Medical Apartheid and Acres of Skin. We will read and write about medical science and its intersection with cultural looting and economic exploitation. The goal is to inspire your reading of science and medical history so that you become aware of science's "not-so-good" impacts on the shaping of this nation.
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Based on
the two articles Prisoner and Medical Experimentation and Book says dangerous
chemicals were tested on scores of inmates I learned new information about
medical bodies. Medical bodies were used for experiment in 45 prisons. I
learned that scientist gave no regards for the inmate’s health. The inmates
were given a small portion of money and done experiments that put their lives
in danger. They were used as test subjects for perfumes, soaps, and cosmetics
but for more menacing chemicals, from dioxin and psychological warfare agents
to radioactive isotopes. Inmates were also bit purposely by mosquitos infected
with malaria so scientist could study the disease. The experiment was called
‘’bite day’’ the mosquitos were put in a cage and put on the body and watched
carefully until the mosquito bit the inmate. Many of the inmates are suffering
from those experiments till this day from heart failure to other medical
problems. In my opinion this right here is outrageous nobody should be put in
such danger such as the danger inmates were being put in the prison system.
Nobody should be given a disease that kills people to try to save life’s what’s
the point of saving a life when you’re killing one. It seems to me that people
didn’t consider the inmates welfare cause there were found guilty over a crime
and were seen as a minority. I believe working experiments on innocent animals
is cruel it makes it even worse when you are doing the experiment’s on a human
being our own kind. No money in the world should be worth someone’s health and
their lives put in danger over anything. I really can’t judge the inmates
though they probably were in need of money the prison system is hard on inmates
when you don’t have someone on the other side to help you and I say this from experience.
If someone was to put a couple hundred dollars in front of me in jail and I’m
hungry from just eating the slop that jail gives me it will be pretty hard to
resist from not taking the money not even thinking what the consequences are
going to be in the future on my body.
DG
Medical Bodies
Based on the two articles, “Book says dangerous chemicals
were tested on scores of inmate” & “Prisoners & medical
Experimentation: Willing Bodies?” Inmates were used as experiments in the late
1940 and ended in the late 1970. Up to 432 Statesville prisoners were infected
by mosquitoes that carried malaria. Most of the initial cohort of prisoners who
were forced to participate in the study were white and had to submit to battery
of medical tests. These participants were effected 20 years later after. These experiments
have a long effect causing your heart to stop and fail. The Subjects were never
checked up for the long term effects after the experiments, they had no idea
what they were getting involved with concerning their health fair after. The
Chicago Daily claimed “None of the volunteering convicts died but were made
violently ill as a result of their infection with vivax malaria and subsequent
treatment with drugs then in the experimental stage.”
“Prisoner
& medical experimentation: Willing Bodies?” Allen M. Hornblum exposes a 20
year medical testing program. These inmates volunteered to be tested on in
exchange of being paid. These inmates willing offered themselves without
knowing what they were getting themselves into until after feeling the after
effects of the experiments. By 1969, fully 85 percent of new drugs were tested
on inmates in 42 prisons. He subjected several inmates to 7,500 micrograms of
the toxic chemical 468 times as much as Dow wanted. Some of the after effects
the inmates were infected with includes hallucination and confusions for up to
three weeks. Kilogram tested radioactive isotopes despite having little
training in radioactive medicine. To get a required license from U.S Atomic
energy commission, he lied.
My personal
opinion is viewed from different points depending on the article. These
experiments could have been a major game changer in the u.s. The results of
these experiments could make a medicine to save other lives in the world. This
was fine until they didn’t help check up on the experiments with the long term
side effects. Plus they didn’t tell these inmates what they were putting in
their bodies. Also that 432 prisoners were forced to participate which was
wrong because you shouldn’t force people to put or take experiments in their
bodies. My opinion changes Depending on how you view this situation. Over all I
think they shouldn’t of been testing these experiments without legal consent
and letting these inmates know what their putting in their body.
DZ
Medical Bodies
In the two articles “Book
says dangerous chemicals were tested on scores of inmates” and “prisoners &
Medical Experimentation: Willing bodies?” I learned about medical bodies.
Medical bodies were used for experiments in mosquitos, perfume, soap and
cosmetics, and menacing chemicals such as dioxin and psychological warfare
agents to radioactive isotopes. In 1944, 432 Statesville prisoners were
infected mosquitoes carrying the most virulent strain of malaria. The first
“bite day” was March 8, 1944. “No longitudinal study was performed on the
Statesville prisoners to assess the long term effects of these regimens. Heart
failure is now a known side effect of some synthetic antimalarial.” The experiments tended to be very painful.The
inmates were given a few hundred dollars a month to accept a number of tests
and more money for the army’s chemical warfare tests. It was a human research
factory. Inmates suffered hallucinations and confusion for up to three weeks. I
think that the medical industry was taking advantage of the prisoners putting
their mental and physical health at risk. Some of the prisoners would get very
sick right away and some died m, “None
of the volunteering convicts died but many were made violently ill as a result
of their infection with vivax malaria and subsequent treatment with drugs then
in the experimental stage. “They were being paid little. I feel the inmates
were being manipulated because you don’t have a lot of options for an income in
prison. I feel that they looked at the prisoners differently and didn’t care
what the outcome of the experiment would be. The prisoners were poor,
uneducated, confined. They had no idea what they were involved with. I feel if
they were educated on potential consequences many of they would not have
participated in the tests. I do not agree with the testing. I feel it is
inhumane.
NS
NS
Prisoners and medical experiment willing bodies
Based on the two articles name 1 and 2 I learned about
medical bodies. Medical bodies were used for experiments in I learned that one
of the convicts who expose himself to malaria sit in a hospital bed at
stateville and takes a pill that may cure him of malaria. I also learned that in
1944 432 stateville prisoners were
infected mosquitoes carrying the most virulent strain of malaria under the
supervision of medical researchers from the university of Chicago Harcourt
(2011)describes the process:
Most important my favorite thing I learned was the
university of Chicago malaria study ended in the mid-1970s when the country
decided to stop using prisoners for medical experimentation.
I think they shouldn’t start back using tests on the
inmates they are not practice dummies
Philadelphia the
first time he walked into the prison in 1971 he notice the telltale signs
:gauze bandages on the arms back even faces of inmate after inmates .had they
rioted he asked a guard .
EB
Medical Bodies
What I learned in the text called prisoners & Experiments
in the 1980’s inmates all over the world were used as test dummies on chemicals
or things that can be bad for the skin. In my eyes every thing got to do with
science. Scientist was discovering more and more research every day so they
started test drugs, deadly bug bites, perfume, lotions, and any thing else you
can test on humans and skin. The name of one the experiment was called the
bite. State ville prisoners was contestants of this research project each
person 10 mosquitoes infected with malaria on their arm and watch them bite
them. In the text it says “ You took a mosquitoes, placed its cage on A’s
forearm and watched carefully until the mosquito bit him.” I think that should
be a crime because people shouldn’t use other people to test thing they
wouldn’t test their selves. What I learned by reading acres of skin is people
use medical experiments to test different types of products on human
beings. Perfumes was being tested lotion
was being tested and more chemicals. Some chemicals was very harsh to the skin
giving people skin diseases, and long term disability effects. Most of the
suspect that was victum of the treatments was poor, uneducated, and confined. A professor of The university of Pennsylvania
was a founder of the mad science and was the one who made up the idea to go to
prisons and use inmates as test dummies.
EJ
Based on the two articles I Read Dangerous Chemicals,
Prisoners and
Medical Experimentation. Reading Dangerous Chemicals I
learned inmates were not just test subjects for perfume, soap and cosmetics but
for more menacing chemicals, from dioxin and psychological warfare agents to
radioactive isotopes. The prisoners were testing perfumes of the university of
Pennsylvania Medical experiments on prisoners were unquestioned. By 1969, fully
85 percent of new drugs were tested on inmates in 42 prisons. Scientists ran
several tests at the same time on the same prisoners; Inmates suffered
hallucinations and confusion for up to three weeks. In prisoners and medical
experimentation. I learned University of Chicago’s medical experimentation on
prisoners at Stateville; in 1944 432-stateville prisoners were infected
mosquitoes carrying the most virulent strain of malaria. The first bite day was
March 8, 1944; each mosquito was placed up to the skin of the inmate. In all,
each of the inmates “received the bites of ten infected mosquitoes”. The
experiments tended to be extremely painful; Heart Failure is now a known side
effect of some synthetic antimalarials.
The University of Chicago malaria study ended in the mid 1970s when the
country decided to stop using prisoners for medical experimentation. I truly
disagree with how they treated they prisoners but that been going on now to
this day prisoners are still being miss treated just in a different way I truly
believe that they will never be treated the same after committing a crime. But
for the volunteers you never know they may wanted to commit suicide because
jail is not the place to be.
RR
Medical body’s
In the
article I learn in 1944, 432 Statesville prisoners were infected mosquitoes carrying
the most virulent strain of malaria under the supervision of medical
researchers from the University of Chicago and that the university of Chicago
malaria study ended in the mid-1970s when the country decided to stop using
prisoners for medical experimentation.
My personal
thought is they should stop using prisoners as animals , stop testing on them its
not right ,
JC
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