Taking as starting points the Foucault's concept of bio-power of population, the Giorgio Agamben's considerations about nude life and the Hannah Arendt's comprehension of human condition, we analyze experiments with human beings that were made in the beginning and in the end of twenty century. Initially, we discuss the experiments that were made in India, between 1894 and 1899, for determinate the Anopheles role in the transmission of malaria. Finally, we analyze the way by which recently, in Africa, were conducted researches over pregnant women infected by the HIV.
Bio-power; Nude life; History of medicine; Experimentation with human beings