Subjected to Science

Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War

AvSusan E. Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced-and hotly debated the ethics of-the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940. Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments-benign and otherwise-conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film), Udo Wile's "dental drill" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments, which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ, luetin.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1998-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801857096

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Medicinsk utrustning och medicinska tekniker inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Susan E. Lederer is associate professor of the humanities at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University.

Recensioner i media

Lederer's writing is crisp and clear, her historical documentation is exhaustive, and her social commentary persuasive. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the history of human experimentation and medical research. New England Journal of Medicine Essential reading for anyone concerned with clinical research public policy and attitudes. -- Norman M. Goldfarb Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices 2006

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. "The Sacred Cord": Doctors, Patients, and Medical ResearchChapter 2. The Charge of Human VivisectionChapter 3. The American Medical Association and the Defense of ResearchChapter 4. Rules for Research: Human Experimentation and the AMA Code of EthicsChapter 5. "Your Dog and Your Baby": The Continuing Campaign Against Human VivisectionChapter 6. Heroes and Martyrs: Human Experimentation in an Age of Medical ProgressEpilogueAppendixNotesBibliographic EssayIndex