Subjected to Science

Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (Revised)
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-8018-5709-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

Reihe: The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine

The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period "before Tuskegee"—from 1890 to 1940

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced—and hotly debated the ethics of—the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments—benign and otherwise—conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film), Udo Wile's "dental drill" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments, which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ, luetin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lederer, Susan E

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Sacred Cord": Doctors, Patients, and Medical Research
Chapter 2. The Charge of Human Vivisection
Chapter 3. The American Medical Association and the Defense of Research
Chapter 4. Rules for Research: Human Experimentation and the AMA Code of Ethics
Chapter 5. "Your Dog and Your Baby": The Continuing Campaign Against Human Vivisection
Chapter 6. Heroes and Martyrs: Human Experimentation in an Age of Medical Progress
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lederer, Susan E
Susan E. Lederer is associate professor of the humanities at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University.