
Breast ironing is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl’s breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear. It is mostly practiced in parts of Cameroon. Young girls start the procedure at eight or nine years old by wearing tightly wrapped bandages around their chest to prevent growth. […]

On May 14, 1939, Lina Medina gave birth, via caesarean, to a healthy six-pound baby boy, in a remote village in Ticrapo, Castrovirreyna Province, Peru. The girl’s belly had been growing for several months and her mother was afraid she might have a tumor. To their shock, the doctor diagnosed their daughter as being seven […]

Between 1945–1947, 820 poor pregnant Caucasian women were given radioactive iron at Vanderbilt University. It was funded by the U.S. Public Health Service, the Washington-based Nutrition Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Monsanto. The researchers worked with the Tennessee State Department of Health and did not inform the women that they were part of an experiment. […]

In exchange for consent to test vaccinations, New York University researcher Saul Krugman promises parents with mentally disabled children free mental healthcare and enrollment into the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, N.Y., for mentally retarded children. Once the children were in the school Saul Krugman deliberately infected the children with viral hepatitis by feeding […]