Table 5.
Salk polio vaccine trials | 8 (15%) |
Nuremberg medical trials | 35 (66%) |
Wrong-eye surgery and altered medical records from book Waking Up Blind: Lawsuits Over Eye Surgery | 22 (42%) |
Kermit Gosnell abortion and infanticide murder trial | 26 (49%) |
Tuskegee syphilis experiments | 41 (77%) |
Physician-assisted suicide | 33 (62%) |
California forced-sterilization practices in prisons and mental institutions | 39 (74%) |
Withholding nutrition and hydration from patients in a chronic vegetative state (e.g., Terri Schiavo case) | 13 (24%) |
Unnecessary cardiac surgeries done on normal patients documented in the book Coronary | 29 (55%) |
New York lawsuit detailing organ harvesting from patients not yet meeting the criteria of brain death | 29 (55%) |
China’s forced one-child limit family policy | 15 (28%) |
Note: n = 53.