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Photo Credits for Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline Guatemala Photo credits for Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline Guatemala syphilis studies: https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/june-2016-guatemala-inoculation-experiments Karl Brandt: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/karl-brandt Caption: Declaration of Geneva and Eglantyne Jebb, Founder of “Save the Children” in the UK , 1919 Credit: SCF/PP1423 Cadbury Research Library James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind-Franklin https://www.researchgate.net/figure/James-Watson- Francis-Crick-Maurice-Wilkins-e-Rosalind-Franklin_fig4_242012620 Kidney transplant Credit: http://www.kjonline.com/news/transplant-just-one-chapter-of-first-organ-donors-life_2011- 01-01.html Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31228250 Wilowlbrook Hospital Scan by NYPL - https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-ca69-a3d9-e040- e00a18064a99, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56198880 Eichmann: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Eichmann_at_Trial1961.jpg Medicare Caption: Lyndon B. 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