Book ID: CBB000330968

Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (2003)

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Reviewed By

Review Kutcher, Gerald (2005) Review of "Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 535). unapi

Review Iverson, Margot (2006) Review of "Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 421). unapi

Review Ross, Lainie Friedman (2005) Review of "Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century". Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (p. 312). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Goodman, Jordan; McElligott, Anthony; Marks, Lara (2003) Making Human Bodies Useful: Historicizing Medical Experiments in the Twentieth Century. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Balmer, Brian (2003) Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body: Germ Warfare Tests in the United Kingdom after World War II. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 27). unapi

Chapter Humphreys, Margaret (2003) Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 53). unapi

Chapter Jones, David S.; Martensen, Robert L. (2003) Human Radiation Experiments and the Formation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937--1962. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 81). unapi

Chapter Stanton, Jenny (2003) “I Have Been on Tenterhooks”: Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee Experiments. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 109). unapi

Chapter Mitchell, Glenn (2003) See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word: Indoctrination at Ground Zero. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Whittemore, Gilbert; Boleyn-Fitzgerald, Miriam (2003) Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium: America's Overlapping Wars against Communism and Cancer in the 1950s. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 165). unapi

Chapter Howell, Joel D.; Hayward, Rodney A. (2003) Writing Willowbrook, Reading Willowbrook: The Recounting of a Medical Experiment. In: Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century (p. 190). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bičak, Ivana
Nolan, James L.
Löwy, Ilana
Razumenko, Fedir
Jacobs, Noortje
Weindling, Paul J.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Social History of Medicine
European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health
Science, Technology and Human Values
Renaissance Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Duke University Press
Yale University Press
Steiner
Palgrave Macmillan
Johns Hopkins University
Indiana University Press
Concepts
Medicine and ethics
Human experimentation
Medicine
Biology and ethics; bioethics
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Radiation sickness; radiation toxicology; Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS)
People
Fleck, Ludwik
Beaumont, William
Nolan, James F.
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
Places
United States
Germany
Nagasaki (Japan)
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
England
Netherlands
Institutions
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
Cincinnati General Hospital
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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