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“The demonizing and devaluing of certain segments of the population during the last two decades of the nineteenth century would grow in both support and legitimacy.”
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
“three associates of the William Pepper Clinical Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania used well over a hundred children under the age of eight at the St. Vincent’s Home for Orphans, a Catholic orphanage in Philadelphia, for a series of diagnostic tests in which a tuberculin formula was placed in the test subjects’ eyes. 23”
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
“It should be understood that doctors did not want to damage their patients—as a profession they were sworn to do no harm—but if they committed dastardly acts, they were more easily pardoned if something positive had come of the exercise. Experiments on humans were usually excused if the results of the study were substantial, the process had an element of science to it, and the physicians were correct in their expectations. 19”
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
― Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
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