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The uses of humans in experiment : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century / edited by Erika Dyck Larry Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; Volume 95.
- Clio Medica, 0045-7183 ; Volume 95
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human experimentation in medicine--History.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Clinical trials--History.
- Clinical trials.
- Human beings--Research--History.
- Human beings.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
- Clinical trials--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
- Human beings--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill | Rodopi 2016
- Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern incarnation of ethics has often been considered a product of the second half of the twentieth century, as enshrined in international laws and codes, but these authors remind us that this territory has long been debated, considered, and revisited as a fundamental part of the scientific enterprise that privileges humans as ideal subjects for advancing research.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart
- Introduction / Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart
- The Hermphrodite of Charing Cross / Anita Guerrini
- Galvanic Humans / Rob Iliffe
- The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Experiments, Organic Apparatus and Problems of Calibration / Joan Steigerwald
- Shocking Subjects: Human Experiments and the Material Culture of Medical Electricity in Eighteenth-Century England / Paola Bertucci
- Pneumatic Chemistry, Self-Experimentation and the Burden of Revolution, 1780–1805 / Larry Stewart
- Food Fights: Human Experiments in Late Nineteenth-Century Nutrition Physiology / Elizabeth Neswald
- Experimenting with Radium Therapy: In the Laboratory and the Clinic / Katherine Zwicker
- Anthropometry, Race, and Eugenic Research: “Measurements of Growing Negro Children” at the Tuskegee Institute, 1932–1944 / Paul A. Lombardo
- Nazi Human Experiments: The Victims’ Perspective and the Post-Second World War Discourse / Paul Weindling
- A Eugenics Experiment: Sterilization, Hyperactivity and Degeneration / Erika Dyck
- Index / Erika Dyck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28671-3
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004286719 DOI
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