Altruism or reckless curiosity? A brief history of self experimentation in medicine

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 203-207

  Kerridge, Ian ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANGIOGRAPHY; AUTOMUTILATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF EXPERIMENTATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOLUNTEER;

ALTRUISM; AUTOEXPERIMENTATION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 0038354923     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2003.00337.x     Document Type: Review

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