Acres of Skin
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| Author | Allen M. Hornblum |
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| Subject | Experimentation on prisoners |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Routledge |
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Publication date
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1998 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-415-91990-8 |
Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison is a 1998 book by Allen Hornblum. The book documents clinical non-therapeutic medical experiments on prison inmates at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia from 1951 to 1974, conducted under the direction of dermatologist Albert Kligman.[1] The title of the book is a reference to Kligman's reaction on seeing hundreds of prisoners when he entered the prison: "All I saw before me were acres of skin" ... "It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time".[2]
The publication of Acres of Skin in 1998 attracted considerable international media interest.[3] The book has been reviewed in several journals including the International Journal of Dermatology,[4] Social History of Medicine[5] and Canadian Journal of History.[1][6][7][8]
See also[edit]
- Human experimentation in the United States
- The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
- List of medical ethics cases
References[edit]
- ^ a b Theresa Richardson. Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison (Review) Canadian Journal of History, April 1, 2001.
- ^ Allen M. Hornblum. Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, p. 52.
- ^ Allen M. Hornblum. Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007, p. ix.
- ^ Jeanine Millikan. Book Review: Acres of Skin International Journal of Dermatology, 38(2): 158, February 1999.
- ^ T.W. Laqueur. Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison Social History of Medicine, Volume 16, Number 1, April 2003 , pp. 159-161.
- ^ Democracry Now. Holmesburg Prison news segment, Aug. 1, 2000
- ^ Hornblum, A. M. "Ethical Lapses in Dermatologic "Research"." Arch Dermatol 135, no. 4 (Apr 1999): 383-5 PMID 10206044
- ^ Weyers W. Medical experiments on humans and the development of guidelines governing them: the central role of dermatology. Clin Dermatol. 2009 Jul-Aug;27(4):384-94. PMID 19539167
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