Monday, 14 March 2011

MALARIA: History: The University of Chicago Malaria Experiments on Prisoners at Stateville Penitentiary


Bernard E. Harcourt : University of Chicago - Law School : February 6, 2011


In March 1944, doctors at the University of Chicago began infecting volunteer convicts at Stateville Prison with a virulent strand of malaria to test the effectiveness and side-effects of potent anti-malarial drugs. According to Dr. Alf Alving, the principal investigator, malaria "was the number-one medical problem of the war in the Pacific" and "we were losing far more men to malaria than to enemy bullets." http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1758829

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