Subjected to Science - Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine
Release date:	1998
First published:	1995
Authors:	Susan E. Lederer (Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	216
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8018-5709-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Promotions
LSN:	0-8018-5709-0
Barcode:	9780801857096

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