The horrors endured at the Willowbrook ... became subjects of a controversial medical experiment. Adults and children were knowingly injected with the virus that causes hepatitis for a medical ...

Researcher Saul Krugman contended that because hepatitis infection was almost inevitable for school ... subjects to serious harm without informed and voluntary consent. But because the Willowbrook ...

A patient is left to himself in a large room at Willowbrook in 1971, the same year the school was ... there were several hepatitis outbreaks and patients were used as test subjects, starved ...

It was here that one of the most notorious institutions in the world was located: Willowbrook State School. An idyllic ... Known as the Willowbrook Hepatitis Study, children were purposely given ...

These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Hepatitis was injected into patients and ...

but only a handful of more well-behaved patients would get to go to school, and they were only taught for about two hours a day. There were also terrible issues regarding hepatitis at Willowbrook.

Now Vanessa Leigh DeBello tracks her mother's 16-year stay at the school in a new memoir Moron: A Daughter's Story of an Accidental Childhood in Willowbrook. "Moron" was one of three scientific ...