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The Abuse of Man : an illustrated history of dubious medical experimentation / Wolfgang Weyers, M.D.
LIBRA R853.H8 W49 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weyers, Wolfgang.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Germany.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States.
- United States.
- Germany.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- xx, 755, [1] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ardor Scribendi, Ltd., [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Studies by Inoculation
- 3. The Call of Conscience
- 4. The Value of Performing Experiments on Humans
- 5. Therapeutic Trials
- 6. Warriors Against Disease
- 7. The Merger of Antivivisectionism and Anti-Semitism
- 8. Anti-Semitism as a Vehicle to Morality
- 9. The Dawn of Informed Consent
- 10. The American Approach to Experimentation on Humans
- 11. Legal Initiatives in the United States
- 12. Experiments on Humans in a Turbulent Time
- 13. From the Best to the Worst
- 14. Medical Research under the Nazis
- 15. Research by the Japanese in Occupied China
- 16. Experiments on Humans by the Allies
- 17. The Nuremberg Code
- 18, The Aftermath of Nuremberg
- 19. An Orgy of Experiments on Humans
- 20. The Prison as Test Site
- 21. The Mental Institution as Test Site
- 22. Experiments on African-Americans
- 23. The "Most Captive" Population
- 24. Big Business
- 25. Putting on the Brakes
- 26. The End of the Story?
- Oath, Declarations, and Codes.
- Notes:
- "Typeset in Miller, Mantinia, and Galliard. Types designed by Matthew Carter. Printed on Accent Opaque paper. Book Design by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-707) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 189335721X
- OCLC:
- 57515243
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