基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Illustrates the extent to which living human bodies have been "useful" to democratic states.
Full Description
Through American, British, and Australian case histories of germ warfare tests and radiation experiments, an examination of the role of state power in human experimentation.
Contents
Contents:1. Making Human Bodies Useful: Historicizing Medical Experiments in the Twentieth CenturyPART I: What Is a Human Experiment? 2. Using the Population Body to Protect the National Body: Germ Warfare Tests in the United Kingom after World War II 3. Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating NeurosyphilisPART II: Who Experiments? 4. Human Radiation Experiments and the Foundation of Medical Physics at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley, 1937-1962 5. "I Have Been on Tenterhooks": Wartime Medical Research Council Jaundice Committee Experiments 6. See an Atomic Blast and Spread the Word : Indoctrination at Ground ZeroPART III: Whose Body? 7. Injecting Comatose Patients with Uranium: America's Overlapping Wars Against Communism and Cancer in the 1950's 8. Writing Wilowbrook, Reading Willowbrook: The Recounting of a Medical Experiment
