Be sure to watch the video and read the article. You may want to read "Operation Delirium" (internal link
in the Manufacturing Madness") that provides specifics of the psychoactive drug trails on military
personnel.
https://thescene.com/watch/thenewyorker/manufacturing-madness
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/manufacturing-madness
Answer the following questions:
- Discuss whether these soldiers could be considered volunteers for research participation. Why or why
not?
- More generally, is it possible to include military personnel in clinical research in an ethically
acceptable manner? Why or why not?
- Discuss what kind of adverse effects these military personnel could have suffered as a result of this
study.
- If such study would have been conducted now, how volunteers would have been recruited\
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