Subjected to Science:

Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War

By: Susan E. Lederer

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Paperback | 14 December 1997

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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 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.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
"The Sacred Cord": Doctors, Patients, and Medical Research	p. 1
The Charge of Human Vivisection	p. 27
The American Medical Association and the Defense of Research	p. 51
Rules for Research: Human Experimentation and the AMA Code of Ethics	p. 73
"Your Dog and Your Baby": The Continuing Campaign against Human Vivisection	p. 101
Heroes and Martyrs: Human Experimentation in an Age of Medical Progress	p. 126
Epilogue	p. 139
Appendix	p. 143
Notes	p. 147
Bibliographic Essay	p. 183
Index	p. 187
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