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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"human experimentation"”.
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
… roles in American controversies over animal and human experimentation from the dawn of the Twentieth Century to today's "War on Terror." Drawing on archival and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) research, this dissertation traces how American partisans in the enduring vivisection controversy have …
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Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy, 1895-1925
… with x-ray and radium treatment, and it situates human experimentation within the ethical paradigm of the period—the so-called “Golden Rule”—as well as examining debates amongst radiation therapists over issues of professional identity. X-ray and radium apparatus receive extensive treatment, as …
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Untangling the complexity of nature: Machine-learning for accelerated life-sciences
… at scale, even in the most restrictive case of human experimentation. The potential of this approach is revealed through the Brain TreeBank, a multi-modal dataset of naturalistic language aligned to intracranial neural recordings. The TreeBank provides the resolution and breadth required to …
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Dirty Little Secrets: Prostitution and the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study in Guatemala
… Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study, a human experiment that tested venereal disease prevention among vulnerable populations. The prostitutes were considered to be, although they were not always in actuality, vectors of disease. Archival material exposed in 2010 by historian Susan …
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Demographic profile of clinical research volunteers: Improving the effectiveness of promotional recruitment
<p>Background: Successfully recruiting participants for clinical trials is a challenge that crosses all medical disciplines. Slow enrollment to clinical trials delays the completion of clinical research studies.</p> <p>Objectives: This study collected demographic data of current and past clinical …
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THE ROLE OF ALPHA OXIDATION IN LIPID METABOLISM
… with the disease aetiology. To minimise animal & human experimentation we made use of existing sample sets made available through institutional collaborations, which produced both animal and human interventional study samples suitable for odd chain fatty acid investigations. These sample …
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Ethics in Technical Communication: Historical Context for the Human Radiation Experiments
… analyzes the history and documentation of the human radiation experiments of the 1940s through the 1970s. Research propositions included clarifying the link between medical documentation and technical communication by reviewing the literature that links the two disciplines from the ancient …