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Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

By: Susan E. Lederer

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Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

By: Susan E. Lederer

Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of early biomedical research with human subjects. Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men, women, and children, during the period from 1890 to 1940, including yellow fever experiments, Udo Wile's "dental drill" experiments on insane patients, and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments.

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0801857090

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Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War

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Flesh and Blood

Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

By: Susan E. Lederer

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Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

By: Susan E. Lederer

Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons often encountered shortages of people willing and able to give their organs and tissues. To overcome this problem, they often brokered financial arrangements. Yet an ethic of gift exchange coexisted with the 'commodification of the body'. The same duality characterized the field of blood transfusion, which was essential to the development of modern surgery. This book will be the first to bring together the histories of blood transfusion and organ transplantation. It will show how these two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living and the dead, and humans and animals. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, legal cases, films and the papers and correspondence of physicians and surgeons, Lederer will challenge the assumptions of some bioethicists and policymakers that popular fears about organ transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns and preoccupations with the body. She will show how notions of the body- intact, in parts, living and dead- are shaped by the particular culture in which they are embedded.

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Oxford University Press

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0199721912

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9780199721917

Frankenstein

Penetrating the Secrets of Nature : an Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine

By: Susan E. Lederer

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Frankenstein

Penetrating the Secrets of Nature : an Exhibition by the National Library of Medicine

By: Susan E. Lederer

This title highlights Shelley's novel and the context in which she conceived it. It then focuses on the redefinition of the Frankenstein myth in popular culture. The final section examines the continuing power of the story to articulate present day concerns raised by developments in biomedicine.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813532000

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9780813532004

Valuing Animals

Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America

By: Susan D. Jones

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Valuing Animals

Veterinarians and Their Patients in Modern America

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Both controversial and compelling, Valuing Animals uncovers the extent to which veterinary medicine has shaped--and been shaped by--this contradictory attitude.

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0801871298

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9780801871290

Toxic Exposures

Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States

By: Susan L. Smith

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Toxic Exposures

Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States

By: Susan L. Smith

Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread and insidious. Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to poison gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. In addition, it reveals the racialized dimension of these mustard gas experiments, as scientists tested whether the effects of toxic exposure might vary between Asian, Hispanic, black, and white Americans. Drawing from once-classified American and Canadian government records, military reports, scientists’ papers, and veterans’ testimony, historian Susan L. Smith explores not only the human cost of this research, but also the environmental degradation caused by ocean dumping of unwanted mustard gas. As she assesses the poisonous legacy of these chemical warfare experiments, Smith also considers their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans’ rights movements. Toxic Exposures thus traces the scars left when the interests of national security and scientific curiosity battled with medical ethics and human rights.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813586119

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9780813586113

Flesh and Blood

Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

By: Susan E. Lederer

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Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

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Oxford University Press

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0190289775

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Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Valuing Animals

Valuing Animals

Toxic Exposures

Toxic Exposures

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

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