Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War / Susan E. Leder...
Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War / Susan E. Leder...
Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War / Susan E. Lederer.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N174.28/8
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English
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Physical content
xvi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. "The Sacred Cord": Doctors, Patients, and Medical Research -- 2. The Charge of Human Vivisection -- 3. The American Medical Association and the Defense of Research -- 4. Rules for Research: Human Experimentation and the AMA Code of Ethics -- 5. "Your Dog and Your Baby": The Continuing Campaign ag...
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Maryland
Date Published
1995.
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Lederer examines the saturation in which human experimentation occurred as well as the social arrangements made between experimenters and their subjects. She offers detailed accounts of experiments - benign and otherwise - conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children. These accounts then form the background for a discussion of s...
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Subjected to science : human experimentation in America before the Second World War / Susan E. Lederer.
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The Henry E. Sigerist series in the history of medicine.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-186) and index.
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N174.28/8
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74VKRXBKXv6y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKRXBKXv6y
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0801848202 (acid-free)
9780801848209 (acid-free)
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174.28
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991023161979702626
