Talk:Self-experimentation in medicine

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[edit] Does the Implant Technology Case Belong in This Article

I am placing it in Self-experimentation. Since the purpose of the experiment is not medical, does it really belong here also? DCDuring 14:22, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flu (Salk), Polio (Salk), HIV (Zagury) Vaccines

I don't know what or how much should be in the main article.

From: Wall Street Journal, 3/19/87 "AIDS Scientist's Self-Inoculation Sparks Debate" By Marilyn Chase, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

"A report that French scientist Daniel Zagury made himself the first human subject to receive an experimental AIDS vaccine has electrified the scientific community, but left it divided as to whether the action was heroism or folly. [...]"

The WSJ article also mentions that Jonas Salk injected himself twice (with experimental flu vaccine in 1942 and polio vaccine in the 1950s) before large scale testing began on others. AdderUser (talk) 23:07, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bio-absorbable Sutures: Baptist (W. R. Grace and Co.)

Quoted from: "Poly(hydroxyalkanoates): Biorefinery polymers with a whole range of applications. The work of Robert H. Marchessault" by William J. Orts, Geoffrey A.R. Nobes, Jumpei Kawada, Sophie Nguyen, Ga-er Yu, and François Ravenelle, Can. J. Chem. 2008, 86(6), 628-640.

page 630, column 2: "For example, in one verified story (36), Baptist wanted to convince the world that PHB could be applied as a bio-absorbable suture. He created a PHB fiber, slashed his own arm with a scalpel, and then sutured the cut with this fiber." AdderUser (talk) 17:04, 23 May 2008 (UTC)