I was a human experiment. It sounds a bit morbid in a B-movie sort of way, but by signing up to become part of a test panel to examine the herb ginko bilboa's effectiveness for memory enhancement, I ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

In a world that demands constant decision-making, your ability to adapt—whether acting alone or with others—matters more than ever. But how do people actually strike that balance between doing things ...

A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?Forced medical ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...