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> If you'll read the subject line, it doesn't exclude anyone. I was looking
> originally for examples of uniformed consent, regardless of race. I
> didn't go looking specifically for black victimization, I just found it.
>
> It tied in with the other thread. Not being black, I really hadn't
> suspected how widespread it was.
>
> By the time I covered it, I realized the post had gotten longish, so
> merely brushed upon the larger question. Sorry if I left your aunt out.
> She was either part of a study of a particular scheme of therapeutic
> treatment that was being assessed; or else they did an unrelated study on
> her because she was 'dying anyway'. Examples of both are not uncommon.
>
> Either way, it was wrong.
>
> She either gave consent to a 'hail mary' procedure which researchers
> thought might have prolonged her life...or she didn't. Or else the
> procedure was simply unrelated to her condition.
>
> Either way, she wasn't informed, and probably was incapable of giving
> informed consent anyway because of her condition.
>
> Try googling the term, as I suggested, instead of reacting to something I
> didn't say.
>
> jak