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

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"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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dyck, Erika (Editor), Stewart, Larry, 1946- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 95.
Subjects:
Human experimentation in medicine > History.
Clinical trials > History.
Human beings > Research > History.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Human beings > Research > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Human Experimentation > history
Human Experimentation > ethics
Expérimentation humaine en médecine > Histoire.
Études cliniques > Histoire.
Êtres humains > Recherche > Histoire.
Expérimentation humaine en médecine > Aspect moral > Histoire.
Études cliniques > Aspect moral > Histoire.
Êtres humains > Recherche > Aspect moral > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
Clinical trials
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects
Human experimentation in medicine
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects
Menschenversuch
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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