Useful Bodies
Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
Though notoriously associated with Germany, human experimentation in the name of science has been practiced 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 twentieth century, when the rise of the modern, coercive state and the professionalization of medical science converged. Useful Bodies explores the intersection of government power and medical knowledge in revealing studies of human experimentation-germ warfare and jaundice tests in Great Britain; radiation, malaria, a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-8157-2
- EAN: 9780801881572
- Produktnummer: 35555358
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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