Albert Neissers Expeditionen nach Java 1905 und 1907

Bendick, Christoph; Scholz, Albrecht

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“…Neisser had just returned from an expedition to Java in the Netherlands East Indies, where he had conducted large-scale experiments on apes and monkeys artificially infected with syphilis (Bendick and Scholz 2005). According to Wassermann's retrospective account, however, it was not Neisser but the well-known and influential German official Friedrich Althoff, head of the Prussian Ministry of Education and Culture, who had actually given the decisive instigation to work on the serodiagnosis of syphilis.…”

Section: How the Wassermann Reaction Was Conceivedmentioning

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The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912)

Belt¹

2011

Social Epistemology

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Ludwik Fleck is widely recognized as a precursor of Science and Technology Studies, but his case study on the development of the Wassermann reaction as a test for detecting syphilis has never been subjected to detailed empirical scrutiny. The fact that Fleck's monograph is based on a limited set of documentary sources makes his work vulnerable to uncharitable critics. The problematic relation between thought collective and individual scientists in Fleck's theoretical approach is another reason for a systematic re-examination of his case study, using materials on the early period in the history of the Wassermann reaction (1906)(1907)(1908)(1909)(1910)(1911)(1912). My re-examination highlights several problems in Fleck's account: a misinterpretation of the switch from antigen detection to antibody detection; a neglect of the "clinical connection"; an overemphasis on the importance of collective experience leading to implausible views on gross retrospective distortions supposedly inflicted by this experience upon the memories of individual participants; and, finally, a misjudgement of the significance of the acrimonious dispute over the intellectual ownership of the Wassermann reaction. What remains unscathed is Fleck's picture of a zig-zag course of development from false initial assumptions via detours and cul-desacs to a clinically usable test in the end.

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Section: How the Wassermann Reaction Was Conceivedmentioning

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The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912)

Belt¹

2011

Social Epistemology

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“…8 When a series of tests of the bacille Calmette-Guérin in the children of working-class families in Lübeck became known in the 1930s, the German public was once again shaken. 9 In response, new rules governing human experimentation and the development of new therapies were established in 1931, probably inspired by the thinking of Julius Moses (1868-1942), spokesman for the Social Democrats in the Reichstag.…”

Section: Syphilis In Germany and Under The Nazis: Sterilization Euthmentioning

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Syphilis and Human Experimentation From the First Appearance of the Disease to World War II: A Historical Perspective and Reflections on Ethics

Cuerda-Galindo

Sierra

González-López

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Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (English Edition)

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Physicians have conducted research on syphilis for centuries, seeking to understand its etiology and the means of transmission as well as find ways to prevent and cure the disease. Their research practices often strayed from today's ethical standards. In this paper we review ethical aspects of the long history of research on syphilis with emphasis on the experiments performed in the 20th century. The description of research around the time of World War II covers medical experiments carried out in US prisons and in the experimentation centers established by Japanese doctors in occupied territory, as well as experiments in Nazi Germany and the treatment of syphilitics there. Experimentación en sífilis hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial: historia y reflexiones éticasResumen Durante siglos la sífilis ha sido objeto de investigación por parte de los médicos, dado que la etiología, la forma de contagio, la profilaxis y el tratamiento eran desconocidos. En muchas ocasiones las investigaciones se han alejado de los estándares éticos actuales. En este artículo hemos revisado desde un punto de vista histórico y ético las investigaciones que sobre esta enfermedad se han ido realizando a lo largo de los siglos, centrándonos sobre todo en aquellos experimentos realizados en el siglo xx. Describimos con detalle los estudios realizados en los años que tuvieron lugar alrededor de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: experimentos realizados por los médicos norteamericanos en prisiones de Estados Unidos, la sífilis en la Alemania nazi o ଝ Please cite this article as: Cuerda-Galindo E. Experimentación en sífilis hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial: historia y reflexiones éticas. Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2014;105:762---767. 763 los ensayos realizados por los japoneses en centros de experimentación creados a tal fin en los territorios ocupados.

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Die Genese des Informed Consent im Kontext der medizinischen Forschungsethik 1900–1931

Moll

Krischel

2023

Urologie

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ZusammenfassungAn der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert rückte die Problematik des Humanexperimentes sowie die Notwendigkeit der Einwilligung hierzu in den Fokus der Mediziner und einer allgemeinen Öffentlichkeit. Es wird u. a. am Fall des Venerologen Albert Neisser die Entwicklung forschungsethischer Standards zwischen dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und 1931 in Deutschland nachgezeichnet. Das aus der Forschungsethik stammende Konzept des Informed Consent ist heute auch in der klinischen Ethik von zentraler Bedeutung.

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Albert Neissers Expeditionen nach Java 1905 und 1907

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The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912)

The Collective Construction of a Scientific Fact: A Re-examination of the Early Period of the Wassermann Reaction (1906–1912)

Syphilis and Human Experimentation From the First Appearance of the Disease to World War II: A Historical Perspective and Reflections on Ethics

Die Genese des Informed Consent im Kontext der medizinischen Forschungsethik 1900–1931

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