Human subject research

thumb|An anesthetized pig used for training a surgeon Vivisection () is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experimentation on live animals by organizations opposed to animal experimentation, but the term is rarely used by practicing scientists. Human vivisection, such as live organ harvesting, has been perpetrated as a form of torture.

set of research ethics principles for human experimentation

process by means of which a research participant agrees to be the subject of research

declaration from 1964 of World Medical Association comprising a set of ethical principles regarding human experimentation

systematic, scientific investigation that involves human beings as research subjects

thirteen American women who underwent testing similar to the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury

alleged twin study

1951 Greenlandic social experiment

The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid. Serious attempts to create such a hybrid were made by Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov in the 1920s, and possibly by researchers in China in the 1960s; however, neither succeeded.

human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics

isolating infants from normal language

hospital or other institutional committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects

intentional exposure of test subjects to a pathogen to test a vaccine or drug

faked surgical intervention