Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War

The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period "before Tuskegee"-from 1890 to 1940



Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced-and hotly debated the ethics of-the use of human subjects in medical experiments. In Subjected to Science, Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with h...