Human Experiment A Scientific Dilemma

Human experiment A scientific dilemma

Could experimentation with humans save us from diseases? We need to know what this process consists of, experimentation consists of a study of some phenomenon that will be analyzed in laboratories, to know its cause of origin, such as treating them and preventing them. They are based on a systematic methodology aimed at contributing to developing and generalizing a knowledge linked in most of the time to obtain information on etiology of pathologies, symptomatologies produced by vectors and even the cure of the same.  

But what happens when these studies have been carried out without people’s consent, and are subject to concentrations which do not know if it will help improve their condition?, Or is it done with people who are not benefited from the cure? As history demonstrates, research in humans has had inconveniences and situations often away from the search for collective benefit, and causing serious damage to people exposed to these experiments. An example of this were the Nazi concentration camps in which experiments were carried out in humans, which usually resulted in the death, disfiguration or permanent disability, and therefore are considered as examples of medical torture.

Another case is the Tuskegee experiment, made between 1932 and 1972 consisted of injecting placebo to people suffering from syphilis; This was done without their consent and which was a very controversial situation and generated great changes in the legal protection of clinical studies patients.

The fact that they are destroyed by scientific research processes, even when you have the noblest purpose, dehumanizes our culture and reduces the dignity of the human being to a purely selfish level, it is here where you enter a dilemma, since without The realization of these experiments could not find priests to diseases that have had high mortality rates in previous years.

It is at this point that it generates a direct connection with bioethics, since it is ethically incorrect that people are used for experimentation and there are currently many people who want after death donate their bodies to science and it is medicine and technology Those who have advanced a lot in recent years so that new knowledge is generated in this way and the crime of medical torture is not incurred. 

All these advances help build a more human society where man can develop his abilities more fully. The new discoveries and work in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases have been carried out thanks, in part, to research and essays on human beings. Therefore, the restlessness that may be is, if the experimentation has stopped doing with dead people and has worked? Why not keep that idea and continue experimenting without invalidating the opinion of those who wish to donate their post mortem body to science?