Goodman, Jordan et al., eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century.

Goodman, Jordan et al., eds. Useful Bodies: Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003; www.press.jhu.edu.

This volume demonstrates that human experimentation was an issue long before the Nazi era, and that it has continued to be an issue long after passage of the Nuremberg Code and other international agreements. Each chapter is a startling case study--germ warfare and jaundice tests in Great Britain; radiation, malaria, and hepatitis in the United States; and nuclear fallout trials in...

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