Book ID: CBB000951648

Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military (2009)

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Kutcher, Gerald (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: x + 247 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the experimentation on cancer patients done by University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger who treated them with radioactivity.


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Review Miller, Ian (2011) Review of "Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military". Social History of Medicine (p. 168). unapi

Essay Review Santesmases, María Jesús (2010) Life and Death in the Atomic Era. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 409-418). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wiseman, Matthew
Bickford, Andrew
Gazdag, Gábor
Ungvari, Gabor Sandor
Skloot, Rebecca
Weindling, Paul J.
Concepts
Human experimentation
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
Cold War
Medicine and ethics
Medicine
World War II
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Japan
France
Soviet Union
Ontario (Canada)
Institutions
University of Western Ontario (Canada)
University of California
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