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Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War / Susan E. Lederer.
Author
Lederer, Susan E.
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English
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Description
xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
R853.H8 L43 1995
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Human experimentation in medicine
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Series
Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine
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The Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine
Summary note
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 In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer draws on published reports, unpublished correspondence, the popular press, and antivivisection materials to provide the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects from 1890 to 1940.
Lederer examines the saturation in which human experimentation occurred as well as the social arrangements made between experimenters and their subjects. She offers detailed accounts of experiments - benign and otherwise - conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children. These accounts then form the background for a discussion of such issues as patient consent, self-experimentation, the authority of orthodox medicine, and the ethical problems raised by the use of human subjects in biomedical research. Examining the development of medical research ethics in the pre-World War II period, Subjected to Science puts contemporary issues in badly needed perspective. The book provides valuable historical information for understanding current controversies, from debates about the use of animals in medical research to new concerns about informed consent in human research.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-186) and index.
Contents
"The sacred cord": doctors, patients, and medical research
The charge of human vivisection
The American medical association and the defense of research
Rules for research: human experimentation and the AMA code of ethics
"Your dog and your baby": the continuing campaign against human vivisection
Heroes and martyrs: human experiementation in an age of medical progress.
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ISBN
0801848202 ((acid-free))
9780801848209 ((acid-free))
9780801848025 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
0801848024 ((hc ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
94027816
OCLC
30811926
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