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Ethics and experimentation on human subjects in mid-nineteenth-century France: the story of the 1859 syphilis experiments.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12955963     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This article examines a series of experiments involving the deliberate infection of human subjects with syphilis that were performed in Paris in 1859 by Dr. Camille Gibert and Dr. Joseph Alexandre Auzias-Turenne. Using the scientific literature on syphilis, the contemporary reaction in the French medical press to Gibert's and Auzias-Turenne's experiments, and the private papers of Auzias-Turenne, this paper places these experiments within a context of scientific and professional rivalry, and seeks to show how both moral and scientific concerns shaped and limited experimental practices in mid-nineteenth-century France.
Authors:
Alex Dracobly
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Biography; Historical Article; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Bulletin of the history of medicine     Volume:  77     ISSN:  0007-5140     ISO Abbreviation:  Bull Hist Med     Publication Date:  2003  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2003-09-05     Completed Date:  2003-09-26     Revised Date:  2009-11-11    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0141233     Medline TA:  Bull Hist Med     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  332-66     Citation Subset:  E; IM; Q    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Ethics, Medical / history
Ethics, Research / history
France
History, 19th Century
Human Experimentation / ethics,  history*
Humans
Syphilis / history*
Personal Name Subject
Personal Name Subject:
Camille Gibert; Joseph Alexandre Auzias-Turenne; Philippe Ricord

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