Book ID: CBB000830117

Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America (2007)

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Hornblum, Allen M. (Author)


Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 2007
Language: English


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiv + 207 pp.; ill.; index; bibl.

Description Focusing on clinical trials in Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia from the point of view of one prisoner who was an experimental subject.


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Review Caruso, David (2009) Review of "Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America". Technology and Culture (p. 972). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hedfors, Eva
Weindling, Paul J.
Birstein, Vadim J.
Blue, Ethan
Braun, Ramona
Breathnach, Ciara
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History of Psychology
Medical History
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
University of New Mexico
Crown Publishers
Duke University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
Springer International
Concepts
Human experimentation
Medicine
Prisoners
Prisons
National Socialism
Medicine and ethics
People
Alexander, Leo
Fleck, Ludwik
Thompson, John West Robertson
Zimbardo, Philip G.
Ivy, Andrew Conway
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Philadelphia, PA
Soviet Union
Nuremberg (Germany)
Institutions
University of California
Stanford University
Cincinnati General Hospital
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