Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

 
9780801889684: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0801889685 ISBN 13 : 9780801889684
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Brian Balmer, University College London; Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, University of Wisconsin; Rodney A. Hayward, University of Michigan; Joel D. Howell, University of Michigan; Margaret Humphreys, Duke University; David S. Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital; Robert L. Martensen, Tulane University School of Medicine; Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong; Jenny Stanton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Gilbert Whittemore, independent scholar/attorney, Boston

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À propos des auteurs

Jordan Goodman is an honorary research fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.

Anthony McElligott is founding professor of history at the University of Limerick and director of the Centre for Historical Research.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801889685
ISBN 13 
9780801889684
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
238
Éditeur
Goodman Jordan
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780801873423: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0801873428 ISBN 13 :  9780801873423
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
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