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Self-experimentation refers to single-subject research in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Usually this means that a single person is the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment. Also referred to as Personal science or N-of-1 research,[1] self-experimentation is an example of citizen science,[2] since it can also be led by patients or people interested in their own health and well-being, as both research subjects and self-experimenters. Human scientific self-experimentation principally (though not necessarily) falls into the fields of medicine and psychology. Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present day.[3] For example, after failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Barry Marshall drank a petri dish of Helicobacter pylori from a patient, and soon developed gastritis, achlorhydria, stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and halitosis.[4] The results were publish

Self-experimentation - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Research experiment conducted on oneself Self-experimentation refers to single-subject research in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Usually, this means that a single person is the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment. Self-experimentation is an example of citizen science [ 1 ] since it can be done by patients or people interested in their own health and well-being, as both research subjects and self-experimenters. It is also referred to as pe

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