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Contested medicine : cancer research and the military / Gerald Kutcher.
LIBRA RC267 .K88 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kutcher, Gerald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Cancer.
- Human experimentation in medicine--United States--History--20th century.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Clinical trials--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Clinical trials.
- Radiation--Physiological effect--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Radiation.
- Medicine, Military--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Medicine, Military.
- Medicine, Military--Research.
- History.
- Radiation--Physiological effect--Research.
- Radiation--Physiological effect.
- Clinical trials--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Cancer--Research.
- United States.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Neoplasms--radiotherapy.
- Clinical Trials as Topic--ethics.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Whole-Body Irradiation--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- United States.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Neoplasms--radiotherapy.
- Clinical Trials as Topic--ethics.
- Military Medicine--history.
- Whole-Body Irradiation--history.
- Physical Description:
- x, 247 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Cancer clinical trials
- The production of trustworthy knowledge
- Military medicine and cancer therapy
- Cancer patients as proxy soldiers
- A cancer patient's story
- Peer review
- Public disclosure
- Ethical judgment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226465319
- 0226465314
- OCLC:
- 230848039
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