Book ID: CBB000078223

Acres of skin: Human experiments at Holmesburg Prison: A true story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science (1998)

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Hornblum, Allen M. (Author)


Routledge
Publication date: 1998


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xxii + 297 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Authors & Contributors
Weindling, Paul J.
Blue, Ethan
Breathnach, Ciara
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Czech, Herwig
D'Antonio, Patricia O'Brien
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
History of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
Routledge
Inanna Publications
Lehigh University Press
Oxford University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Springer International
Concepts
Human experimentation
Prisoners
Psychiatric hospitals
Medical abuse
Psychiatry
Medicine
People
Ferrier, David
Zimbardo, Philip G.
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20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Germany
United States
Philadelphia, PA
Great Britain
Ontario (Canada)
Japan
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Stanford University
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