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The disturbing and unethical work of Vladimir Demikhov

submitted by RhesusMonk

1 decade 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago

Schmawwy's recent post inspired this. I'm surprised it wasn't on here before. These experiments from the 1950s are critical to any discussion of the ethics of experimental science. While the results are a macabre set of clearly suffering individuals, the science of neurology may have taken some leaps from this research. Some say it was revolutionary; others ignore the research altogether on the grounds of its lack of ethical consideration for the animals. You decide.

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Can you add something to warn sensitive viewers? This can be very upsetting, particularly for children. [e]:perhaps replace 'unethical' with 'disturbing'? Is this experimentation clearly condemned by the scientific / medical community?

*nochannel *science *horrorshow *dark because I don't think this is what catsandogs channel fans are seeking here on the Sift.

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His work is not dismissed out of hand. His was the seminal work on tissue transplants, and much of what medical scientists know about how transplanted tissues interact with new hosts came out of Demikhov's results from these experiments. However, they are seen relativistically even by their supporters; that is, they were a product of their time and place. I imagine only the most extreme fringe in the medical community could support these kinds of ethics in the modern world. Maybe an actual medical technician might be able to enlighten us further...

MarineGunrock

Ethics be damned, that's just fucking creepy.

twisted fuckers....Mengele shit-

Poor Cerberus. Where's the third head?

2 dogs with half the shit to clean up...what are you all complaining about?

I thought morality was relative to time, location, and sometimes, ends...

ant

*NSFW for disturbing footages.

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*vladImir, apparently

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,891156,00.html

Oh honestly I don't know what everyone is whining about. I am just as much an animals rights person as anyone else, but Demikhov wasn't doing it to be a sick and twisted frek. He was doing it for medical research. Doing it to see could mammals have the organ of another mammal if needed. We might not have been able to have the liver, heart, eye, kidney transplants we have today. So shush. In the 30's and 50's we didn't have the same laws as we do now, and you wouldn't have cared back then because it was medical history and wouldv'e seemed amazing to you.

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