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Professor of Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Carl Elliott will speak about his new book on medical experimentation and the price of saying no.Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. Prof Carl Elliott will talk about his latest book - The Occasional Human Sacrifice: medical experimentation and the price of saying no.
Among the six case studies of unethical medical research in The Occasional Human Sacrifice is a chapter on Aotearoa New Zealand’s ‘unfortunate experiment’ on women at National Women’s Hospital in the 1960s and ’70s. Herbert Green’s research involved withholding treatment from women with abnormal cervical smears to test his hypothesis that cervical carcinoma in situ (CIS) did not progress to invasive cervical cancer. The women had not known they were part of a trial and ultimately some women developed invasive cervical cancer and some died. Then a junior obstetrician, Dr Ron Jones — together with Drs William McIndoe and Malcolm McLean — was instrumental on exposing what went on at National Women’s Hospital, and was interviewed for the book.
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Lecture Theatre AF 116, AUT North, Akoranga Dr, Northcote, 72 Akoranga Dr, Northcote, Auckland 0627, New Zealand,Auckland, New Zealand