Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

by Susan E. Lederer and Lederer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801857090
• ISBN13: 9780801857096
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher