The uses of humans in experiment : : perspectives from the 17th to the 20th century / / edited by Erika Dyck Larry Stewart.
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...
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| Superior document: | Clio Medica, Volume 95 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;
Volume 95. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart
- Introduction / Erika Dyck and Larry Stewart
- The Hermphrodite 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 and 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 / Erika Dyck
- Index / Erika Dyck.