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Human medical experimentation : from smallpox vaccines to secret government programs / Frances R. Frankenburg, editor.

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Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, 2017.

Human experimentation in medicine -- History.

Human experimentation in medicine -- Atrocities -- History.

Medicine -- Research -- History.

Medical sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- History.

Medical research personnel -- History.

9781610698979 (hc.)

xx, 322 pages ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Era 1 : Pre-19th century -- Galen of Pergamon -- William Harvey -- Hippocrates of Cos -- John Hunter -- Edward Jenner -- James Lind -- Ambroise Pare -- Santorio Sanctorius -- Smallpox Inoculation -- Transfusion -- Ambroise Pare and the treatment of gunshot wounds (1537) -- William Harvey and the circulation of blood (1628) -- James Lind's scurvy experiment (1747) -- Edward Jenner's inoculation experiment (1798) -- Era 2 : 19th century -- Anesthesiology -- William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- Beriberi experiments in Japan -- Sigmund Freud -- Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine -- John Scott Haldane -- William Stewart Halsted -- Gerhard Armauer Hansen -- Hookworm -- Albert Neisser -- Louis Pasteur -- Giuseppe Sanarelli -- J. Marion Sims -- Venereal disease experiments -- Max Von Pettenkofer -- Inhumane experimentation on African American Slaves (1855) -- Louis Pasteur and rabies (1885) -- Era 3 : 20th century to World War II -- Amoebic dysentery experiments at Bilibid Prison -- Beriberi experiments in Malaya -- Alexis Carrel -- William Castle -- Elgin State Hospital experiments -- Eugenics -- Werner Forssmann -- German medical researach ethics -- Joseph Goldberger -- John Burdon Sanderson Haldane -- Insulin -- Insulin coma theraphy -- Lobotomy -- Malariatherapy -- Cornelius Rhoads -- John D. Rockefeller -- San Quentin State Prison experiements -- Seizure therapy -- Richard Pearson Strong -- Studies of Rickets and Scurvy -- Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis -- Yellow Fever Commission -- William Osler and the importance of informed consent (1907) -- Albert Leffingwell and the cruelty of vivisection (1916) -- The Tuskegee Experiments (1932) -- Era 4 : World War II -- American experiments with Malaria -- Auschwitz -- Hermann Becker-Freyseng -- Kurt Blome -- Karl Brandt -- Buchenwald -- Dachau -- Doctor's Trail -- Albert Hofmann -- Josef Mengele -- Minnesota Starvation Experiment -- Nuremberg Code -- Nutrition research in Canada's aboriginal communities -- Herta Oberheuser -- Ravensbrueck -- Stateville Penitentiary Malaria experiments -- Unit 731 -- The activities of Unit 731 (1942) -- The Nuremberg Code (1948) -- Era 5 : Cold War -- American bacterial attacks on U.S. cities -- Atomic verterans -- Aversion therapy in South Africa -- Henry Beecher -- Belmont Report -- Boston Project -- Donald Ewen Cameron -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- CIA and mind control -- Declaration of Helsinki -- Development of chlorpromazine -- Fernald State School -- Heart surgery and transplantation -- Irradiation of prisoners' testicles -- Jay Katz -- Albert Kligman -- Ernest and John Lawrence -- Timothy Leary -- Lexington Narcotic Farm -- Barry Marshall -- Marshall Islands -- Operation Whitecoat -- Maurice Pappworth -- Plutonium experiments -- Polio vaccine trials -- Porton Down -- Project Coast -- Eugene Saenger -- Sexually transmitted disease experiments in Guatemala -- Chester Southam -- James Stanley -- Streptomycin clinical trial -- Thalidomide -- Uranium miners -- Vanderbilt University nutrition experiments -- Vipeholm Hospital exeriment -- Willowbrook hepatitis experiments -- Venereal disease experimentation in Guatemala (1947) -- Parental notification in nutrition experiments at the Fernald State School (1953) -- Willowbrook vaccination experiment letter for parental consent (1958) -- Era 6 : Post-cold War to the present -- Advisory committee on human radiation experiments -- Asthma experiments at Johns Hopkins -- AZT trials in the Third World -- Clinical trials -- Commissions to review ethical issues in research -- Common rule -- Jesse Gelsinger -- Informed consent -- Institutional review boards -- Professional Guinea pigs -- Trovan in Nigeria -- Radiation Experimentation Victims Act (1944) -- Problems facing institutional review boards (1988).

"The history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present. Offers readers a broad understanding of human experimentation. Reviews experimentation from the point of view of the history of medicine. Covers issues of vulnerable, exploited populations and unethical experimentation. Features introductory and time-period overview essays that add necessary contextual information and primary source documents. Includes specialized bibliographies that serve as a gateway to further study. Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, is professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine"--Provided by publisher.

Frankenburg, Frances Rachel.

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