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[Werner Forssmann tested the first heart catheter on himself. For this reason he was fired by the chief physician]

Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas: ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight.

[Auto-experimentation (II)].

[Carrión-disease--history of a long-forgotten malady].

[Auto-experimentation (I). Understanding digestion and invention of anesthesia]

Alternatives to animal experimentation in biomedical education.

Carrión's disease: an altitude-associated infectious disease.

Self-experimentation in vulnerable populations.

Altruism or reckless curiosity? A brief history of self experimentation in medicine.

Experimental human infection with the dog hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum.

Researchers as guinea pigs.

Self-experimentation.

[Self experimentation and in vitro research will not suffice: a plea for treatment]

Life of Craig: he was so curious about himself, he sequenced his own DNA.

Scientist reveals secret of genome: it's his.

The case for a new system for oversight of research on human subjects.

Chemists 'volunteered for nerve gas tests'.

Live attenuated vaccine trials in medically informed volunteers: a special case?

Research involving the vulnerable sick.

Researchers claim embryonic cell mix of human and cow.