Book ID: CBB001213786

Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments (2013)

unapi

Perry, Gina (Author)


New Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 339 pp.; bibl.
Language: English

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause.

...More
Reviewed By

Review Russell, Nestar (2013) Review of "Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 221-223). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001213786/

Similar Citations

Book Blass, Thomas; (2004)
The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram (/isis/citation/CBB000830718/)

Chapter Paul Weindling; (2016)
Nazi Human Experiments: The Victims’ Perspective and the Post-Second World War Discourse (/isis/citation/CBB689138379/)

Chapter Larry Stewart; Erika Dyck; (2016)
Introduction: Humans as Subjects and Objects (/isis/citation/CBB704684966/)

Article Magnus, P. D.; (2005)
Hormone Research as an Exemplar of Underdetermination (/isis/citation/CBB000770703/)

Book Benjamin Hurlbut; (2017)
Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics (/isis/citation/CBB656933386/)

Chapter Erika Dyck; (2016)
A Eugenics Experiment: Sterilization, Hyperactivity and Degeneration (/isis/citation/CBB901923190/)

Article Marcia Holmes; Daniel Pick; (2019)
Voices Off: Stanley Milgram’s Cyranoids in Historical Context (/isis/citation/CBB912866743/)

Book Stark, Laura; (2012)
Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Reseach (/isis/citation/CBB001221168/)

Chapter Elizabeth Neswald; (2016)
Food Fights: Human Experiments in Late Nineteenth-Century Nutrition Physiology (/isis/citation/CBB916709678/)

Book Larry Stewart; Erika Dyck; (2016)
The Uses of Humans in Experiment: Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century (/isis/citation/CBB481861802/)

Chapter Katherine Zwicker; (2016)
Experimenting with Radium Therapy: In the Laboratory & the Clinic (/isis/citation/CBB688737371/)

Chapter Larry Stewart; (2016)
Pneumatic Chemistry, Self-Experimentation and the Burden of Revolution, 1780–1805 (/isis/citation/CBB736835566/)

Chapter Anita Guerrini; (2016)
The Hermphrodite of Charing Cross (/isis/citation/CBB742607874/)

Chapter Paul A. Lombardo; (2016)
Anthropometry, Race, and Eugenic Research: “Measurements of Growing Negro Children” (/isis/citation/CBB420718008/)

Chapter Joan Steigerwald; (2016)
The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Experiments, Organic Apparatus and Problems of Calibration (/isis/citation/CBB428488248/)

Chapter Rob Iliffe; (2016)
Galvanic Humans (/isis/citation/CBB469497665/)

Authors & Contributors
Stewart, Larry R.
Dyck, Erika
Koch, Ulrich
Weindling, Paul
Zwicker, Katherine Jane
Steigerwald, Joan
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Science in Context
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of the Human Sciences
History of Psychology
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Columbia University Press
Brill
Basic Books
Concepts
Science and ethics
Human experimentation
Experiments and experimentation
Ethics
Human body
Experimental psychology
People
Milgram, Stanley
Longino, Helen
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
18th century
17th century
21st century
Places
United States
Charing Cross (London)
London (England)
Germany
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment