Legal Opinion
Mink v. University of Chicago
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided October 13, 1978No. 77 C 1431PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
GRADY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs have brought this action 1 on behalf of themselves and some 1,000 women who were given diethylstilbestrol (“DES”) as part of a medical experiment conducted by the defendants, University of Chicago and Eli Lilly & Company, between September 29, 1950, and November 20, 1952. The drug was administered to the plaintiffs during their prenatal care at the University’s Lying-In Hospital as part of a double blind study to determine the value of DES in preventing miscarriages. The women were not told they were part of an experiment, nor were they told…
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3Cited by58 opinions
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