Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unsuspecting Hundreds. "Since World War II," says Dr. Beecher in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, there has been "increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. It seems obvious that further hundreds have not known that they were the subjects of an experiment." Dr. Beecher charges that "grave consequences" have been suffered as the result of such work. In no case does he name the hospital or doctors involved; in no case...
> In an experiment designed for studying the effects of the thymus gland on immune mechanisms and the "take" of grafts, eleven of 18 U.S. children, aged 31 months to 18 years, had their thymuses cut out while they were undergoing heart surgery. For comparison, the seven others were spared the...
Similar group discussions among concerned Christians can be found all across the U.S. these days, as part of an interfaith experiment in grass-roots ecumenism called "livingroom dialogues." The idea of spiritual conversations by laymen, without the inhibiting presence of a priest or minister, was thought up by Paulist Father...
The experiment involved infinitesimal particles of matter so slight and evanescent that they survived only a billionth of a billionth of a second. In their place they left still lighter particles that made fine lines across a bubble chamber at Brookhaven National Laboratory. And in those curving tracks scientists traced...
The Brookhaven experiment involved a fast-decaying subatomic particle known as an eta meson, which breaks down into three lighter particles known as pions-one with no electrical charge. According to the theory of symmetry, the positive and negative pions should not have shown any significant difference in speed. But...