Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine) - Hardcover

Lederer, Professor Susan E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801848202 ISBN 13: 9780801848209

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

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

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801848202
• ISBN 13: 9780801848209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216