its inception, and does not become so because it achieved some measure of success .
in extending the frontiers of medicine" (Visscher 6). This justifies that an experiment is either ethical or not ethical the second it is brought about, and that it doesn't matter what it accomplishes in the future. .
Most people would say that we have to do some human experimentation. The reasoning for this is that if we didn't test humans with new products we would never really know if the products were good or not, or if they would work on the every day person. Although we do need humans for the testing of many products, the line has to be drawn somewhere. At what point can we say that the testing has gone unethical, and is now wrong? There are many examples of ethical experimentation as well as unethical experimentation. For instance, an example of an unethical experiment would be when the Nazi doctor, Dr. Josef Mengele, did all his horrible torture experiments on the Jewish prisoners. "His "experiments" consisted of subjecting people to extremes of temperature, observing them starve to death, seeing how they reacted to unnecessary operations without anesthesia, and so on" (Weiss 36). As you can plainly see, this would definitely be considered unethical human testing because these people that were being tested on had no choice what so ever, and it was either be tested on and tortured with all these horrible acts, or die. Most of the time death was the outcome of the experiment anyway. An example of ethical human testing would be a test in which the patient was fully capable of .
.
saying stop at any time, and was given the choice in the first place. An example of this would be the testing of new medicines on patients that were willing to help out the doctors who discovered them. .
The most important part of human testing is the humans themselves. There .
are risks involved in human testing, and the biggest risk of all, of course, is dying.
