Useful Bodies
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7342-3 (ISBN)
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Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practised 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 20th century, when the rise of the modern, coercive state and the professionalization of medical science converged. "Useful Bodies" brings together leading historians of medicine to explore 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 US; 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.
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. Lara Marks is a visiting senior research associate at Cambridge University and an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Chapter 1. Making Human Bodies Useful: Historicizing Medical Experiments in the Twentieth Century
Part I: What Is a Human Experiment?
Chapter 2. Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body: Germ Warfare Tests in the United Kingom after World War II
Chapter 3. Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis
Part II: Who Experiments?
Chapter 4. Human Radiation Experiments and the Foundation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937–1962
Chapter 5. "I Have Been on Tenterhooks": Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee Experiments
Chapter 6. See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word : Indoctrination at Ground Zero
Part III: Whose Body?
Chapter 7. Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium: America's Overlapping Wars Against Communism and Cancer in the 1950's
Chapter 8. Writing Wilowbrook, Reading Willowbrook: The Recounting of a Medical Experiment
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.1.2004 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-7342-8 / 0801873428 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-7342-3 / 9780801873423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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