title: A Horrible Experiment.
abstract: A patient presented to my office who had been tortured in the course of a wartime medical experiment many years ago. Seeing him prompted me to explore my personal reaction to his case and to reflect on the history of the ethics of medical experimentation in the 20th century.
authors: Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, Maimonides Medical Center, and Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, SUNY-Downstate School of Medicine, Brooklyn, New York, USA mweiss@maimonidesmed.org.
authors: Michael H
authors: MH
authors: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063906:Prisoners of War / Q000266:history*; D061226:Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D014104:Torture / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States; D014826:Vocal Cord Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D047789:World War II
keywords: medical experimentation; torture