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(00:00:00) Welcome — Alexis St. Martin & William Beaumont’s Human Experiments
(00:00:59) St. Martin’s Burial — Reported Fear of Posthumous Dissection
(00:04:01) Mackinac Island in 1822 — The Gunshot Wound
(00:13:24) Beaumont’s Digestion Experiments — Studying a Living Stomach
(00:22:32) Alexis St. Martin’s Life in Canada — Beyond the Experiments
(00:31:47) Beaumont’s 1833 Research — Medical Breakthrough & Consent
(00:38:32) Alexis St. Martin’s Death & the Historical Burial Account
Alexis St. Martin survived an 1822 gunshot wound with an opening into his stomach. William Beaumont used it to study digestion, lowering food on threads into a living man's body. Terrifying & True examines the medical breakthrough and the unequal relationship behind it: a surgeon who was also an employer, a labor contract requiring experiments, and a patient who negotiated, refused, and repeatedly left. Follow the history beyond the lurid image of a man with a hole in his stomach. When a discovery depends on someone's pain and economic dependence, how freely can that person consent?
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