The uses of humans in experiment : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century
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The uses of humans in experiment : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century
(Clio medica, v. 95)
Brill Rodopi, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern incarnation of ethics has often been considered a product of the second half of the twentieth century, as enshrined in international laws and codes, but these authors remind us that this territory has long been debated, considered, and revisited as a fundamental part of the scientific enterprise that privileges humans as ideal subjects for advancing research.
Table of Contents
1 The Hermphrodite of Charing Cross
2 Galvanic Humans
Rob Iliffe
3 The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Experiments, Organic Apparatus and Problems of Calibration
Joan Steigerwald
4 Shocking Subjects: Human Experiments and the Material Culture of Medical Electricity in Eighteenth-Century England
Paola Bertucci
5 Pneumatic Chemistry, Self-Experimentation and the Burden of Revolution, 1780-1805
Larry Stewart
6 Food Fights: Human Experiments in Late Nineteenth-Century Nutrition Physiology
Elizabeth Neswald
7 Experimenting with Radium Therapy: In the Laboratory & the Clinic
Katherine Zwicker
8 Anthropometry, Race, and Eugenic Research: "Measurements of Growing Negro Children"
Paul A. Lombardo
9 Nazi Human Experiments: The Victims' Perspective and the Post-Second World War Discourse
Paul Weindling
10 A Eugenics Experiment: Sterilization, Hyperactivity and Degeneration
Erika Dyck
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