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

• Pubblicazione: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.02700904
• Soggetto topico: Human experimentation in medicine - History - 20th century; Medicine, Experimental
• Altri autori: GoodmanJordan McElligottAnthony <1955-> MarksLara <1963->
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Jones, Massachusetts General Hospital; Robert L. Martensen, Tulane University School of Medicine; Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong; Jenny Stanton, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Gilbert Whittemore, independent scholar/attorney, Boston.
• Titolo autorizzato: Useful bodies
• ISBN: 0-8018-8157-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827744903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II