Apr 18
Willowbrook State School: A Case Study in How Not to Conduct Research. The Willowbrook State School, designed to be a haven for children with disabilities, instead earned itself a reputation as the poster child for unethical hepatitis studies in the 1950s. Researchers thought it would be a brilliant idea to deliberately infect children with hepatitis—because who wouldn’t want to turn a group of vulnerable kids into a living laboratory experiment? Consent? Well, let’s just say the methods used were as questionable as the science behind them. #history #HumanExperimentation #WillowbrookScandal #MedicalHistory
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