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"Deadly Monopolies": Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself
One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a book that examines the extent...October 31, 2011 | Story -
As Grim Details Emerge, Guatemalan Victims Seek Justice for U.S. Medical Experiments in 1940s
A White House bioethics commission has revealed gruesome new details about venereal disease experiments from 1946 to 1948 in which U.S. medical officials intentionally infected Guatemalan sex workers, prisoners, soldiers and mental patients with syphilis in order to study the effects of penicillin. The commission concluded that...August 31, 2011 | Story -
Exposed: US Doctors Secretly Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis in the 1940s
Recently unearthed documents show around 700 Guatemalan soldiers, prisoners, prostitutes and mental patients were infected as part of a study into the effects of penicillin. It’s unclear if the patients were ever cured of the diseases or even given treatment. Hours after the findings were revealed, President Obama apologized...October 05, 2010 | Story -
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico
Medical historian Susan Reverby, author of Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy, discusses the history of medical experimentation at home and abroad. We also play excerpts of the documentary Deadly Deception: The Tuskegee Study. [includes rush transcript]October 05, 2010 | Story -
Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation
A new report from Physicians for Human Rights accuses the Bush administration of conducting illegal and unethical human experimentation and research on prisoners in CIA custody. The report details how doctors, psychologists and other professionals monitored the effects of sleep deprivation, waterboarding and other so-called "enhanced...June 08, 2010 | Story -
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment...January 19, 2007 | Story -
Guinea Pig Kids: How New York City is Using Children to Test Experimental AIDS Drugs
A new BBC documentary exposes how the city of New York has been forcing HIV-positive children under its supervision to be used as human guinea pigs in tests for experimental AIDS drug trials. We speak with the filmmaker Jamie Doran and Vera Sharav of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. [includes rush transcript]December 22, 2004 | Story -
Plutonium Files: How the U.S. Secretly Fed Radioactivity to Thousands of Americans
Denver-based journalist Eileen Welsome reveals how as a reporter for the tiny Albuquerque Tribune (circulation 35,000) she uncovered one of the country’s great Cold War secrets: the U.S. government had knowingly exposed thousands of human Guinea pigs with radiation poisoning including 18 Americans who had plutonium injected directly into their bloodstream. [includes rush transcript]May 05, 2004 | Story -
Acres of Skin — Human Medical Experimentation
Acres of Skin is a disturbing expose, set in Philadelphia’s Holmesburg prison.June 11, 1998 | Story
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US AIDS Experiments on Women and Children in Developing Nations
Pregnant women in Africa, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic, are being given "treatments" in 9 studies, in which approximately 1000 babies are expected to die as a result of not receiving AZT treatment, the standard regimen. Participants have, in some cases, a 50% chance of getting AZT or a placebo, but all are desperately poor and would be unable to afford paying for AZT. Government...April 23, 1997 | Story
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The US government reaches settlement with victim and their families for damage done by radiation experiments
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Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary announced today that the US Government has reached a 4.8 million dollar settlement with 12 victims of plutonium testing. 11 of the 12 victims were tested without their knowledge, a fact confirmed by Secretary O’Leary in her speech, which went on the denounce any future action of this kind. Amy Goodman follows with an interview with Ellmarine...November 20, 1996 | Story
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
Gen. John Allen, commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the Pentagon, four stars on each shoulder, his chest bedecked with medals. Unlike Allen, many decorated U.S. military veterans left the streets of Chicago after the NATO summit without their medals.
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In an extended interview, David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, discusses the history of the company, why they put sustainability and social justice ahead of profits, the organic and GMO labeling movements, the U.S. war on hemp, and why they refuse to sell out. [includes rush transcript]
Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth examines why the U.S. has not pressured Bahrain to release pro-democracy activists. He also discusses Syria and the conditions in Israeli jails and courts that prompted 1,550 Palestinian prisoners to go on a hunger strike. [includes rush transcript]
