 Tuesday, April 12, 2005
| Topic: |
Prisoners in Research |
| Presenter: |
Wendy Bracken, SDSU |
| Location: |
SDSU Foundation: Sky Park |
| Discussion: |
Prison inmates have long been a particularly vulnerable group of potential research subjects, and their use in medical experiments has a troubling past.” As a direct result of various unethical experiments involving prisoners, Federal regulations have been developed that provide a general guide for the inclusion of prisoners in research. Despite the development of these regulations, however, there still remains a great deal of debate over the ethics of involving prisoners in research and egregious and unethical experiments with prisoners have still occurred. |
| Readings: |
- "Prisoners"
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"Acres of Skin"
- "Prison Teens Study"
- "Prisoners as Human Subjects"
- "They Were Cheap and Available"
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