Carl Elliott

Carl Elliott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. His most recent book is The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. (November 2024)

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The Horrors of Hepatitis Research

Sydney Halpern’s Dangerous Medicine shows that the abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.

Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis

by Sydney A. Halpern

November 21, 2024 issue

Fairer Covid Trials

November 5, 2020 issue

The True Cost of Vaccine Studies

Can challenge trials be done ethically?

August 20, 2020 issue

Letter

Abie Rohrig

Fairer Covid Trials

November 5, 2020 issue

An Ethical Path to a Covid Vaccine

Many idealistic young people seem willing to risk their health for the common good. The question is how to make Phase I studies safe and fair.

Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

by Jill A. Fisher

July 2, 2020 issue

Letter

Nir Eyal

The True Cost of Vaccine Studies

Can challenge trials be done ethically?

August 20, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal, March 30–April 5

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Danny Lyon in Bernalillo, Andrew McGee in New York, Nicole Rudick in South Orange, and more.

April 5, 2020