PubMed · 16402476
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Jeannette D Hoit. 2005. Who goes first?. https://doi.org/10.1044/1058-0360(2005%2F025)
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Throughout history, we can find physicians and scientists who made important discoveries through self-experimentation or by risk-taking. Some were consciously exposed to plagues, some swallowed germs or chemicals and some put themselves in extreme physiological situations. Today, it seems that these stories are completely unnecessary: ethics, together with concrete controlled studies guidelines, suffice to avoid self-experimentations.