Deadly Experiments

Deadly Experiments
Creative director	Joe Bullman
Production
Producer	John Brownlow
Production company	Twenty Twenty Productions
Original release
Network	Channel 4
Release	6 July 1995 (1995-07-06) [1]

Deadly Experiments was a documentary aired on Channel 4 in 1995 as part of their True Stories series. It was produced by Twenty Twenty Television and featured several US and UK based research projects conducted in the 1950s and 60s which involved radioactive administration to humans. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Legacy

• "Women thought they could trust their GP. They were part of a deadly experiment". Metro . 29 August 2023.
• "Search for women fed radioactive chapatis". BBC CWR. Coventry and Warwickshire: BBC. 30 August 2023.
• "Daughter questions Coventry radioactive chapati study consent". bbc.com/news. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
• Shackle, Samira (11 February 2025). "The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent?". The Guardian .

References

1. • "Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s. Report of a committee inquiry". International Nuclear Information System. International Atomic Energy Agency. 1998. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
   • "Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s. Report of a committee inquiry". Office of Scientific and Technical Information. U.S. Department of Energy. 1 July 1998. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
   • "Radiation in MRC supported research in the 1950s and 1960s". UK Research and Innovation . 22 August 2023.
2. • Kmietowicz, Zosia (30 May 1998). "MRC cleared of unethical research practices" . British Medical Journal . 316 (7145): 1625. doi:10.1136/bmj.316.7145.1625g. ISSN   0959-8138. PMID   11645066.
   • Evered, D C (15 July 1995). "'Deadly Experiments'". BMJ . 311 (6998): 192. doi:10.1136/bmj.311.6998.192b. PMC   2550247 .
3. De Chadarevian, Soraya (2006). "Mice and the reactor: the "genetics experiment" in 1950s Britain". Journal of the History of Biology. 39 (4): 707–735. doi:10.1007/s10739-006-9110-8. ISSN   0022-5010. PMID   17575956.

Further reading

• Tobias, Jeffrey (15 July 1995). "Medicine and the Media". British Medical Journal. 311 (6998): 203. ISSN   0959-8138. PMC   2550260 .

External links

• Brownlow, John. "Deadly Experiments (1995)". vimeo .
• Brownlow, John. "Deadly Experiments" – via YouTube.
• "Deadly Experiments (1995)". BFI. Archived from the original on January 17, 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
• Deadly Experiments (TV Movie 1995) - IMDb