By Hart Johnson
In 1847, the American Medical Association adopted a Code of ethics. One hundred years later, the Nuremberg code of Ethics was established in response to heinous research conducted by Nazis during World War II. In 1964, the World Medical Association issued the Declaration of Helsinki establishing guidelines for the ethical behavior of physicians and participants in medical research. Let’s assume none of this happened…
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Cecily Daiker was Keeper of The Seventeen. It wasn"t a very glamorous title. In fact, it wasn"t her official title. But it was all the title she merited, having abandoned her genetics degree shy of the letters PhD. Instead of saving the world from some terrible disease, she was relegated to lab monkey for PharMagna, the pharmaceutical giant responsible
