| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 217 pages) |
| Contents |
Making Human Bodies Useful -- Part I: What Is a Human Experiment? -- Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body -- Whose Body? Which Disease? -- Part II: Who Experiments? -- Human Radiation Experiments and the Formation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962 -- "I Have Been on Tenterhooks" -- See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word -- Part III: Whose Body? -- Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium -- Writing Willowbrook, Reading Willowbrook |
| Summary |
Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced in other countries, as well, both before and after the Nazi era. The use of unwitting or unwilling subjects in experiments designed to test the effects of radiation and disease on the human body emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, when the rise of the modern, coercive state and the professionalization of medical science converged. Useful Bodies explores the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing studies of human experimentation--germ warfare and jaundice tests in Great Britain; radiation, malaria, and hepatitis experiments in the U.S.; and nuclear fallout trials in Australia. These examples of medical abuse illustrate the extent to which living human bodies have been "useful" to democratic states and emphasize the need for intense scrutiny and regulation to prevent future violations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human experimentation in medicine -- History -- 20th century
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Medicine, Experimental.
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History, 20th Century
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Human Experimentation -- history
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Human Rights Abuses -- history
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44.04 teaching, profession and organizations of medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Research.
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Human experimentation in medicine
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Medicine, Experimental
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Medizinisches Personal
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Experimentele geneeskunde.
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Proefpersonen.
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Nordamerika
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goodman, Jordan, editor
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McElligott, Anthony, 1955- editor.
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Marks, Lara, 1963- editor.
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| LC no. |
2002152398 |
| ISBN |
9780801881572 |
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0801881579 |
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9780801873423 |
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0801873428 |
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