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* Meet [http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200212/200212_popsicle_splash.html Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht], AKA Professor Popsicle. He believes that the best way to study the effects of hypothermia on the human body is to subject himself to it. Repeatedly. By doing things like falling into frozen lakes, fully dressed.
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575465313342139200.html Dr. Stephane Huberty] has myasthenia gravis, a condition too rare to get much attention from researchers. He found out about a possible vaccine, only tested on animals, and set up a company to produce it. But clinical trials were several years and millions of dollars away—so he injected himself. Apparently he's feeling better. (The article lists a few more examples of this trope, not all encouraging.)
* In a humorous example, writer [https://web.archive.org/web/20130407195535/http://www.ajjacobs.com/content/home.asp A.J. Jacobs] has become known for the single gimmick behind most of his books: live some unconventional way for a period of time, then write about it. His experiments include trying to live every word of the Bible literally, trying to follow George Washington's favorite code of etiquette, and outsourcing every aspect of his life to India. The results are, predictably, hilarious.
* The Nuremberg Code, formulated after the trials of the concentration camp "doctors," expressly forbids any form of human experimentation unless the doctors in question experiment on themselves - and treats even that exception as being ethically and morally dubious. No country has ever adopted the Nuremberg Code in its entirety.
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