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The uses of humans in experiment : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century /

"Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve ins...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Dyck, Erika (Éditeur intellectuel), Stewart, Larry, 1946- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Collection:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 95.
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Table des matières:
  • The hermaphrodite of Charing Cross / Anita Guerrini
  • Galvanic humans / Rob Iliffe
  • The subject as instrument : galvanic experiments, organic apparatus and problems of calibration / Joan Steigerwald
  • Shocking subjects : human experiments and the material culture of medical electricity in eighteenth-century England / Paola Bertucci
  • Pneumatic chemistry, self-experimentation and the burden of revolution, 1780-1805 / Larry Stewart
  • Food fights : human experiments in late nineteenth-century nutrition physiology / Elizabeth Neswald
  • Experimenting with radium therapy : in the laboratory & the clinic / Katherine Zwicker
  • Anthropometry, race, and eugenic research : "Measurements of growing Negro children" at the Tuskegee Institute, 1932-1944 / Paul A. Lombardo
  • Nazi human experiments : the victims' perspective and the post-Second World War discourse / Paul Weindling
  • A eugenics experiment : sterilization, hyperactivity and degeneration / Erica Dyck.