Twelve volunteers wore strangers' scabies-infected underwear - and chose to be there
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Twelve volunteers wore strangers' scabies-infected underwear - and chose to be there
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Tension replaces curiosity the moment you imagine twelve young men pulling on unwashed underwear still warm from strangers infected with scabies - and doing it by choice. The experiment helped reshape military health policy, but what does consenting to deliberate infection tell us about the boundary between sacrifice and suffering?
In this episode, we present the story of the Sorby Research Institute and the volunteers who lived there, describing the experiments, daily life in the house, and the consequences for public health and the men involved - and ask whether consent alone can justify the harms they endured.
Person: Kenneth Mellanby
Person: Walter Bartley
Person: John Pemberton
Location: Sheffield
Period: 1941-1946
- 12 men initially pulled on unwashed underwear worn by people infected with scabies in the first experiment.
- 35 volunteers in total participated at the institute, including 3 women.
- Volunteers ranged in age from 17 to 34.
- Kenneth Mellanby left in 1943 and Hans Adolf Krebs took over management.
- In 2006 John Pemberton published an analysis after locating only 4 of the original 35 volunteers.
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