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

by Susan E. Lederer and Lederer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801848202
• ISBN13: 9780801848209
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.