The University of Minnesota announced a change to its research ethics policies this month after coming under criticism “following the recruitment of a schizophrenia patient named Dan Markingson who died by suicide while enrolled in a drug trial,” the Star Tribune reports. Markingson, who died by suicide in 2004 during his participation in a study for three antipsychotic drugs, “was recruited, while under court commitment order, by a university psychiatrist who was running a study, treating Markingson and advising a judge on the terms of Markingson’s commitment.”
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OMG did someone finally read the Nuremberg Code ?
Many would argue, especially those of us who have survived inpatient psychiatry, that everything that goes on behind psychiatric locked doors is a coerced experiment.
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How generous of them. There are people involved in Dan Markingson’s death who should face criminal charges but if that’s what you’re hoping for I’d not hold your breath.
