the human experiment

The ethical issue at hand is, does finding a cure justify putting test subjects at risk? There is, of course, a need for human experimentation, but human experimentation also has a long history of dangerous and harmful experiments performed on nonconsenting patients. I believe it is only right to inform the patient of what is being done to them, especially when it comes to life threatening procedures. In one case, a man named Bill has AIDS. He was informed of a new treatment entitled h.o.p.e. it is not certain this treatment will help; in fact, it may do nothing at all. It is a costly treatment, but Bill is desperate. A group of physicians considered placeing a few patients on placebos and the other on the acutal drug. I think that is unethical to do because the patients are going in for treatment. Not be tricked into becoming scinences' guinea pigs. It would be different if they were informed, but they weren't.