Facing down the wolves in white coats

• Autores: Fred Pearce
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3164, 2018, págs. 42-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pearce talks about Maurice Pappworth's 1967 book, Human Guinea Pigs, where he revealed how unsuspecting patients were being "subject to mental and physical distress which is in no way necessitated by, and has no connection with, the treatment of their disease". They were being sacrificed to science by "wolves in white coats," said one reviewer of his book. And not just in hospitals: in prisons, orphanages and psychiatric centres, too. The book created headlines around the world, and Pappworth pulled no punches, likening the situation to the foul work of doctors in Nazi concentration camps. With the war so recent, this comparison inevitably whipped up outrage among his peers.