{"product_id":"subjected-to-science-human-experimentation-in-america-before-the-second-world-war-9780801857096","title":"Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period \"before Tuskegee\"--from 1890 to 1940\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong 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 \u003ci\u003eSubjected to Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLederer offers detailed accounts of experiments--benign and otherwise--conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film), Udo Wile's \"dental drill\" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments, which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ, luetin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan E. Lederer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.98w x 0.59d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801857096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eSusan E. Lederer \u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of the humanities at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43219181469811,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fe5edba8-a9c2-413f-89a5-16481f59024b.jpg?v=1753531342","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/subjected-to-science-human-experimentation-in-america-before-the-second-world-war-9780801857096","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}