Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)
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Susan E. Lederer (Author)
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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
About the Author
Susan E. Lederer is associate professor of the humanities at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University.
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- Contributor: Susan E. Lederer
- Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN13: 9780801857096
- Number of Pages: 216
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 318
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Release Date: 1997-11-07
- Series: The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Susan E. Lederer is associate professor of the humanities at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University.
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