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The hidden stories of medical experimentation on Caribbean slave plantations

  • Written by Londa Schiebinger, Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
image'The Plantation,' oil on wood, ca. 1825.The Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC BY

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. Patients hope for miraculous remedies to restore their health.

We all want our medicines to work for us in wondrous ways. But how are human subjects chosen for experiments? Who bears the burden of risk? What...

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