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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452029303321

Titolo

Useful bodies [[electronic resource] ] : humans in the service of medical science in the twentieth century / / edited by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8018-8157-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodmanJordan

McElligottAnthony <1955->

MarksLara <1963->

Disciplina

616.02700904

Soggetti

Human experimentation in medicine - History - 20th century

Medicine, Experimental

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Making Human Bodies Useful; Part I: What Is a Human Experiment?; 2 Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body; 3 Whose Body? Which Disease?; Part II: Who Experiments?; 4 Human Radiation Experiments and the Formation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962; 5 "I Have Been on Tenterhooks"; 6 See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word; Part III: Whose Body?; 7 Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium; 8 Writing Willowbrook, Reading Willowbrook; Contributors