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...film, which could be used if Mengele, the most wanted Nazi still at large, is ever brought to trial. Known as the "Angel of Death," he is held responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 victims; his particular brand of infamy involved using Auschwitz inmates as human guinea pigs for his genetics research. In Mengele's presence, wrote a former assistant, "the SS themselves trembled...
...conservative-minded editorials that infuriated many of his New Deal colleagues. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1941, Weinberger enlisted in the Army and met his wife Jane, then a nurse, aboard the troopship that carried him to the Pacific theater in 1942. He saw action in New Guinea and ended the war as a captain on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, another hero of his. After mustering out, Weinberger practiced law in San Francisco, but quickly grew restless in the private sector. He won election as a moderate Republican to the state assembly, became a vestryman...
...bishops are all hunkering down in the grass like a bunch of guinea hens," says Margaret Traxler. "Wait a minute, I don't want to insult the hens. They (the bishops) don't stir a feather because they fear for their own tails...
...said DeVries, adding, "He kind of told me off." Though Schroeder agreed to the tests before the implant, new questions have been raised about the ethics of further experimentation on a patient who has already undergone experimental surgery. Replied DeVries: "If you ask Schroeder what it means being a guinea pig, which we have, he says it's kind of a tradeoff. He gets life and he's able to help people after...
Princeton Philosopher Paul Ramsey offers another version of that response. Ramsey comes from the other side of the great research debate. He argues that children may never be made guinea pigs and that we have no right to "consent" on their behalf. A most stringent Kantian, he would prohibit all experimentation on nonconsenting subjects. But for those of us who see the requirement for research as a moral imperative equal in force to the imperative to respect the individual, he counsels: if you must do it, do it, but do not deny the moral force of the imperative you violate...