LEADER 03825nam 2200445 450 001 9910815830203321 005 20200929062551.0 010 $a0-271-07428-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271074283 035 $a(CKB)3710000000497227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224329 035 $a(DE-B1597)584130 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271074283 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000497227 100 $a20200929d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSentenced to science $eone black man's story of imprisonment in America /$fAllen M. Hornblum 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cPennsylvania State University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-271-03336-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"My back is on fire" -- "The jungle" -- "Bubble-eyed Butch" -- "Don't serve time; let time serve you" -- "He's got a body like Marilyn Monroe" -- "They called me outer limits" -- "Fruit up" -- "He still has the cork in his ass!" -- "Those doctors ain't interested in you" -- "I tried my best" -- "I was in some deep shit now" -- "My spiritual awakening" -- "It was a jihad" -- "Feeling death blow past my face" -- "A righteous life" -- "Trying to get a little justice." 330 $aFrom 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under the direction of University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert M. Kligman. While most of the experiments were testing cosmetics, detergents, and deodorants, the trials also included scores of Phase I drug trials, inoculations of radioactive isotopes, and applications of dioxin in addition to mind-control experiments for the Army and CIA. These experiments often left the subject-prisoners, mostly African Americans, in excruciating pain and had long-term debilitating effects on their health. This is one among many episodes of the sordid history of medical experimentation on the black population of the United States.The story of the Holmesburg trials was documented by Allen Hornblum in his 1998 book Acres of Skin. The more general history of African Americans as human guinea pigs has most recently been told by Harriet Washington in her 2007 book Medical Apartheid. The subject is currently a topic of heated public debate in the wake of a 2006 report from an influential panel of medical experts recommending that the federal government loosen the regulations in place since the 1970s that have limited the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates.Sentenced to Science retells the story of the Holmesburg experiments more dramatically through the eyes of one black man, Edward "Butch" Anthony, who suffered greatly from the experiments for which he "volunteered" during multiple terms at the prison. This is not only one black man's highly personal account of what it was like to be an imprisoned test subject, but also a sobering reminder that there were many African Americans caught in the viselike grip of a scientific research community willing to bend any code of ethics in order to accomplish its goals and a criminal justice system that sold prisoners to the highest bidder. 606 $aHuman experimentation in medicine$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia 606 $aPrisoners$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$vAnecdotes 615 0$aHuman experimentation in medicine 615 0$aPrisoners 676 $a615.5072/40974811 700 $aHornblum$b Allen M.$0873514 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815830203321 996 $aSentenced to science$94036618 997 $aUNINA