The Monday excerpt: revisiting the scandal of ‘the unfortunate experiment’

A new book, published today, gives an inside account of the professional arrogance and denial of the tragic “unfortunate experiment” scandal at National Women’s Hospital in Auckland. Our excerpt is from the book’s foreword by Neville Hacker, a past president of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society. Thirty years after the Cartwright Inquiry endorsed the reality of the “unfortunate experiment”, … Read more