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- catalog abstract "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. This book brings together leading historians of medicine to explore the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing studies of human experimentation₇germ 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.".
- catalog contributor b13055824.
- catalog contributor b13055825.
- catalog contributor b13055826.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Making human bodies useful : historicizing medical experiments in the twentieth century / Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, Lara Marks -- Using the population body to protect the national body : germ warfare tests in the United Kingdom after World War II / Brian Balmer -- Whose body, which disease, studying malaria while treating neurosyphilis / Margaret Humphreys -- Human radiation experiments and the formation of medical physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962 / David S. Jones, Robert L. Martensen -- "I have been on tenterhooks" : Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee experiments / Jenny Stanton -- See an atomic blast and spread the word : indoctrination at Ground Zero / Glenn Mitchell -- Injecting comatose patients with uranium : America's overlapping wars against communism and cancer in the 1950s / Gilbert Whittemore, Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald -- Writing Willowbrook, reading Willowbrook : the recounting of a medical experiment / Joel D. Howell, Rodney A. Hayward.".
- catalog description "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. This book brings together leading historians of medicine to explore the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing studies of human experimentation₇germ 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.".
- catalog extent "vi, 217 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801873428 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801889685 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780801873423 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780801889684 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "2003 N-758".
- catalog subject "619/.98/0904 21".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century".
- catalog subject "Human Experimentation history.".
- catalog subject "Human Rights Abuses history.".
- catalog subject "Human experimentation in medicine History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "R853.H8 U846 2003".
- catalog subject "W 20.55.H9 U84 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Making human bodies useful : historicizing medical experiments in the twentieth century / Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, Lara Marks -- Using the population body to protect the national body : germ warfare tests in the United Kingdom after World War II / Brian Balmer -- Whose body, which disease, studying malaria while treating neurosyphilis / Margaret Humphreys -- Human radiation experiments and the formation of medical physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962 / David S. Jones, Robert L. Martensen -- "I have been on tenterhooks" : Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee experiments / Jenny Stanton -- See an atomic blast and spread the word : indoctrination at Ground Zero / Glenn Mitchell -- Injecting comatose patients with uranium : America's overlapping wars against communism and cancer in the 1950s / Gilbert Whittemore, Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald -- Writing Willowbrook, reading Willowbrook : the recounting of a medical experiment / Joel D. Howell, Rodney A. Hayward.".
- catalog title "Useful bodies : humans in the service of medical science in the twentieth century / edited by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".