The Disturbing History of Human Experimentation

According to the article, who did Dr. Jenner first test his smallpox immunity theory on?

• his neighbor's cow

• an eight-year-old boy

• a milk maid

• himself

How did Dr. Jenner verify the results of his first experimentation?

• by doing it again on human subjects

• by doing it again on lab rats

• by doing it again on cows

• by doing it again on milk maids

Dr. Jenner is credited with ...

• discovering smallpox.

• developing a cure for smallpox.

• discovering the world's first vaccine.

• developing a new pathogen.

Why did people oppose autopsies performed by Herophilus and Erasistratus?

• They were illegal.

• They were performed on regular people, not just criminals.

• They were not done for medical research.

• They believed it angered the gods.

Where did Nazi doctors find human subjects to experiment on ?

• concentration camps

• hospitals

• Jewish schools

• none of these

Why were the Nuremberg Codes written?

• Several German doctors on trial argues that medical experimentation was not illegal.

• The existing code of ethics was outdated.

• both of these

• neither of these

After the Nuremberg Code was written...

• the U.S. government stopped conducting unethical medical research.

• the U.S. government outlawed pharmaceutical trials for new drugs.

• the U.S. government tried several American doctors for unethical research on humans.

• the U.S. government continued to fund unethical research on human subjects.

Today, medical research on humans is ...

• still conducted.

• necessary.

• both of these

A theme can be

• a debatable opinion

• it is implied, not usually stated

• valid, as long as you support it with evidence

A theme is a central idea or truth a story reveals about life.

• True

• False