Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War

Written by Susan E. Lederer

Narrated by Lisa S. Ware

The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period "before Tuskegee"-from 1890 to 1940

Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced-and hotly debated the ethics of-the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period, from 1890 to 1940.

Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments-benign and otherwise-conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film), Udo Wile's "dental drill" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments, which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ, luetin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Apr 16, 2024
• ISBN: 9798855505122