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Useful bodies : humans in the service of medical science in the twentieth century / edited by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human experimentation in medicine--History--20th century.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Medicine, Experimental.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital; Robert L. Martensen, Tulane University School of Medicine; Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong; Jenny Stanton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Gilbert Whittemore, independent scholar/attorney, Boston.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Human Bodies Useful; Part I: What Is a Human Experiment?; 2 Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body; 3 Whose Body? Which Disease?; Part II: Who Experiments?; 4 Human Radiation Experiments and the Formation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962; 5 "I Have Been on Tenterhooks"; 6 See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word; Part III: Whose Body?; 7 Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium; 8 Writing Willowbrook, Reading Willowbrook; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8157-9
- OCLC:
- 923192133
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