Acres of Skin Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison

Name: Acres of Skin Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
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ISBN: 9780415923361

ISBN-10: 0415923360

ISBN-13: 9780415923361

Edition: 1998

Authors: Allen M. Hornblum

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In the first expose of unjust medical experimentation since David Rothman's Willowbrook's Wars, Allen M. Hornblum releases devastating stories from within the walls of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison. For more than two decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs in a host of medical experiments. An array of doctors, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania and prison officials, established Holmesburg as a laboratory testing ground. Hundreds of prisoners were used to test products from facial creams to far more hazardous, even potentially lethal, substances such chemical warfare agents. Based on in-depth…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English