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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephens, Martha.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cincinnati General Hospital.

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

Radiation.

Human experimentation in medicine--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A revealing exposé on extreme radiation experiments performed on unknowing cancer patients during the 1960s which caused their deaths.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Preface xi

Prologue xix

PART ONE. THE STORY OF THE

PRESS AND THE PUBLIC CAMPAIGN

I. The First Public Knowledge of the Tests 3

2. I994 and a Secret Drawer Reopened 5

3. The Press in Full Flower 27

4. African Americans Lost and Found 52

5. The Back Files 83

6. Testimonies I07

7. Author's Intermezzo 131

PART TWO. THE MEDICAL STORY

8. The Mother Without a Name I53

9. The Final Years 171

io. The Experiments Must Cease 202

PART THREE. THE LEGAL STORY

II. A Civil Action 225

12. An Angry Judge 244

13. The Case Closed 262

Appendix i. Table of Cincinnati Radiations 293

Appendix 2. Hearing Testimony of Eugene Saenger 296

Notes 307

Sources 335

Index 343.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9786612920301

9781282920309

1282920308

9780822383758

0822383756

OCLC:

213455220