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Life as a Human Guinea Pig: Inside the Weird World of Medical Studies

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Medical experiments can be quite bizarre — I once heard about one that involved injecting subjects with various kinds of animal feces. After a year of participating in various clinical trials for cash, photographer and recent art-school graduate Josh Dickinson decided to start a project called Studied to document what it’s like to be a human guinea pig. His experiences range from being pricked with needles and subjected to pain to being suffocated…

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You can find the rest of the project (including videos) over on Dickinson’s website.

(via Wired)


Image credits: Photographs by Josh Dickinson and used with permission


 
 
  • http://www.facebook.com/happytinfoilcat HappyTinfoil Cat

    One of my few high school pals made a living selling brain tissue, etc. He died young. He had two rare congenital diseases.