Of Human Guinea Pigs

Abstract

Nearly 10 per cent of the women on whom the sub-dermal contraceptive Norplant was experimented cannot be traced. Did these women know that this device had been abandoned in the USA? Did anyone bother to get their informed consent of being experimented on? The ethics of medical experimentation demand that the interest of the subject should prevail over those of science and society. But the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies often ignore these principles, says Preeti Mehra.