Human Body Dissection
Introduction
We know a lot about the human anatomy, its physiology, and how to treat the diseases that tend to disturb the balance between them, but, that was not always the case. It has really been that only in the past few centuries, scientists were able to dissect and experiment on other humans. Such experiments were the main contributors to our current knowledge in some fields of science, especially medicine.
Dissections performed on rabbits, mice, chimpanzees, and other animals, along with some imagination may have helped shape what we knew about the human anatomy back in a day, but only up to a certain extent. In the end, in order to learn more about the human body, dissection accompanied by experimentation had to be done on humans themselves. …show more content…
The main reason for the assault was because J. Marion Sims had conducted his experiments on African slave women between the years 1845 and 1849, in hopes of perfecting his operation. Durrenda Ojanuga, a critic, authored an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics upbraiding Sims on the means of which he has achieved his fame.
History is not sure what to make of J. Marion Sims. Although this subjects were indeed patients affected by the gynecological congenital defect, and that he did in fact treat them successfully, there was one strong incriminating piece of evidence that made his intension’s decency questionable. Sims had carried out his experimental procedures without the use of an anesthetic, although such drugs were available at the time. Records show that had operated on one particular young woman more than 30 times!
Sims later implemented anesthetics in his practice, but by that time he was done experimenting and perfected his operation. That said, not all his un-anesthetized “patients” were African American slaves. He had published a detailed case study of three operations performed on a white woman in 1849, where the use of anesthesia was not mentioned. To this day, people argue whether his experiments were ethical or not. News of the discovery of anesthetics simply may have not reached him earlier.
Unit 731
We know a lot about the human anatomy, its physiology, and how to treat the diseases that tend to disturb the balance between them, but, that was not always the case. It has really been that only in the past few centuries, scientists were able to dissect and experiment on other humans. Such experiments were the main contributors to our current knowledge in some fields of science, especially medicine.
Dissections performed on rabbits, mice, chimpanzees, and other animals, along with some imagination may have helped shape what we knew about the human anatomy back in a day, but only up to a certain extent. In the end, in order to learn more about the human body, dissection accompanied by experimentation had to be done on humans themselves. …show more content…
The main reason for the assault was because J. Marion Sims had conducted his experiments on African slave women between the years 1845 and 1849, in hopes of perfecting his operation. Durrenda Ojanuga, a critic, authored an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics upbraiding Sims on the means of which he has achieved his fame.
History is not sure what to make of J. Marion Sims. Although this subjects were indeed patients affected by the gynecological congenital defect, and that he did in fact treat them successfully, there was one strong incriminating piece of evidence that made his intension’s decency questionable. Sims had carried out his experimental procedures without the use of an anesthetic, although such drugs were available at the time. Records show that had operated on one particular young woman more than 30 times!
Sims later implemented anesthetics in his practice, but by that time he was done experimenting and perfected his operation. That said, not all his un-anesthetized “patients” were African American slaves. He had published a detailed case study of three operations performed on a white woman in 1849, where the use of anesthesia was not mentioned. To this day, people argue whether his experiments were ethical or not. News of the discovery of anesthetics simply may have not reached him earlier.
Unit 731