Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War
In this text the author provides a history of biomedical research on human subjects in the US from 1890 to 1940. She offers accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy and unhealthy adults and children including the yellow fever experiments and "dental drill" experiments on insane patient.
Print Book, English, 1997
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Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997
History
xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780801857096, 9780801848209, 0801857090, 0801848202
40909116
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