The treatment : the story of those who died in the Cincinnati radiation tests / Martha Stephens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Martha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cincinnati General Hospital.

Radiation--Toxicology--Research--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Radiation.

Human experimentation in medicine--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Radiation--Toxicology--Research.

Radiation--Toxicology.

Ohio--Cincinnati.

Physical Description:

xxi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1. The Story of the Press and the Public Campaign

1. The First Public Knowledge of the Tests 3

2. 1994 and a Secret Drawer Reopened 15

3. The Press in Full Flower 27

4. African Americans Lost and Found 52

5. The Back Files 83

6. Testimonies 107

7. Author's Intermezzo 131

Part 2. The Medical Story

8. The Mother Without a Name 153

9. The Final Years 171

10. The Experiments Must Cease 202

Part 3. The Legal Story

11. A Civil Action 225

12. An Angry Judge 244

13. The Case Closed 262

Appendix 1. Table of Cincinnati Radiations 293

Appendix 2. Hearing Testimony of Eugene Saenger 296.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-342) and index.

ISBN:

0822328119

OCLC:

47705526