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The North has established extreme strict principles and regulations in the field of human medical experimentation."Enlightened consent" is demanded of patients recruited uniquely on a volunteer basis. But do these principles apply in the South where ethical commissions are often, to some degree, ineffective or even non-existent, and where medical trials are frequently the only way poorer patients can gain access to treatments that would otherwise...
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During the latter years of the Third Reich, when Jews were being exterminated and physical perfection was still idolized, the Ovitz family was doubly marked for death. This A&E Special tells the survival story of the seven Ovitz siblings, a family of dwarves that had traveled Central Europe in the 1930s and early '40s enchanting crowds with their musical performances. Eventually incarcerated at Auschwitz, they were the subject of numerous eugenics...