I think all of us are aware of the atrocities taking place during WWII in the Nazi concentration camps and the human experimentations performed on the captives. However, what I didn't realise was that just as in any other experimentation these "researches" also resulted in collection of data and conclusions.
A straight forward examples are the "studies" of hypothermia, a critically low body temperature. This was conducted by putting living humans on ice to see how they reacted to low body temperatures and the following recovery from it - cruel and highly immoral indeed.
But what perhaps chocked me the most was how this data has been referred to in recent articles and modern studies. The ethical question is of course, whether or not to use such data in the first place.
Ethics of research is really interesting once you dig a bit deeper.
I can recommend some horrible but mesmerising reading on the topic, even for those not interested in medicine in general.
Another good example is the Tuskegee Experiment, where a dark history of U.S. public healthcare is brought into light.
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