Human Guinea Pigs

Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man is a book about unethical human experimentation, written by Maurice Pappworth and published by Routledge and Kegan Paul in 1967. In the 1970s the book prompted a change in the regulation of human research.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Human Guinea Pigs: Experimentation on Man

Author	Maurice Pappworth
Language	English
Subject	Medical ethics
Publisher	Routledge and Kegan Paul
Publication date	1967

Background

The book is an expansion of an essay by Maurice Pappworth that appeared in a 1962 issue of the journal Twentieth Century.^[7]