So I've recently gone down a rabbithole about unethical expermentations like unit 731, MK ultra, Operation Sea-Spray, stateville penitentiary malaria experiments, Guatemala syphilis experiment, project CHATTER etc. I was wondering if any of you have any good books about unethical experimentations you could recommend. It can be fiction or non fiction
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Doctors From Hell by Vivien Spitz (about Nazi medical experiments). Spitz was a court reporter at the Nuremberg trials.
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Plutonium Files, by Eileen Welsome
If you are looking for fiction (kind of out there fiction), the series **3 AM (Henry Bims)** by **Nick Pirog** might be of interest. It’s a seven-book series but each book is very short (around 125-230 pages per book) and follows a man who is awake for only 1 hour every day from 3:00 am to 4:00 am, and he cannot stay awake even seconds after the clock his 4:00. It’s not until you get through book – and especially 5 that the unethical experiments are explained and why he has the condition he has.
He solves some pretty audacious crimes in the hour per day he is awake in the series, and its a little hard to believe, but then again, it is fiction. Its a fun series that gets 4.1-4.5 stars on Goodreads for each book,
My biggest complaint is that he can talk to his cat. And while the conversations are wholly inappropriate and a bit twisted its what pushed this into skirting fantasy. I can accept he is a multimillionaire who has spent his life as a stock day trader for his 1 hour a day, but the talking to his cat is a stretch (but it is funny, if you are a bit twisted yourself).
You find out in later books that his mother was part of a CIA experimentation program not unlike all of OP’s references and was creating a new form of torture to get the “bad guys” to talk and give up information.
Its a fun read that is more about him solving crimes than what was done to him to create his condition.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and The Report from Group 17. Both by Robert C O’Brien. Both about animal and human testing.
Women of a Promiscuous Nature
Degenerates by Mann
The Institute by King
Natural Beauty
The Lioness by Bojalian (side plot)
*The Island of Doctor Moreau* by HG Wells. Definitely the grimmest of his novels. Jason Isaacs did a very good audiobook of it if you like your words to come through your ears rather than your eyes.