Five programmes from the BBC2 award-winning series
Are you doing this for me, Doctor, or am I doing it for you?
Each week in British hospitals, over 5,000 researchers conduct hundreds of experiments on people. Most of the experiments are done on ordinary patients with common diseases like bronchitis, asthma and heart failure.
How many are carried out for the good of the patients concerned? How many for the benefit of medical science?
Horizon talks both to the new breed of doctor-scientists, and their critics, and looks at several human experiments-at hospitals in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh and New York. Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Editor PETER GOODCHILD Producer peter JONES
(Winner of the Gold Award at the 1973 Berlin Prix Futura. First shown on BBCZ)