The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No

For many years bioethicist Carl Elliott fought to expose a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott's efforts alienated friends and colleagues and the university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. This experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients allegedly gave their "consent" to participate in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates