May 16, 2016 • 23 mins
Today we’re talking to Karen Masterson, the scientific journalist who wrote The Malaria Project, a book detailing the history of the US government’s attempts to find a cure for malaria during World War II. Karen discusses the role journalism plays in research ethics and how the scientific community’s treatment of human research participants has shifted dramatically since the 1940s.
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