A Nation of Guinea Pigs

by Marshall S. Shapo

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 002928550X
• ISBN13: 9780029285503
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

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A Nation of Guinea Pigs

Book is rife with experiments gone awry such as the "Pill" Also DES,Asbestos, DNA and Experimenting with the consumer. Cases are cited. There is an index and references pages. Page 16 "The problem of secrecy and nondisclosure is one that infects all areas of scientific advance where safety questions are involved....Yet as the products of science approach commerce, in cases in which a need to stave off government intervention or to secure official approval presses upon investigators or exploiters, there may be reasons of self-interest to suppress information." Page 47 "The pernicious possibilities in a balancing test for the use of deception are apparent in the APA comittee's list of factors that it says "may make the use of deception more acceptable."