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Author Halpern, Sydney A. (Sydney Ann), author.

Title Dangerous medicine : the story behind human experiments with hepatitis / Sydney A. Halpern
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Sobering Story -- 1942-1946 -- 1. In the National Interest -- 2. Logistics on the Medical Battlefront -- 3. Guinea Pig Camp -- 1946-1954 -- 4. Nuremberg Notwithstanding -- 5. Tales of Redemption -- 6. Cold War Calculations -- 1956-1972 AND BEYOND -- 7. Science on the Cusp -- 8. Backlash -- 9. An Ending without Closure -- Epilogue: Misgivings of Hindsight -- Glossary -- A -- C -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- P -- S -- T -- U -- Record Group Abbreviations -- Notes
Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary The untold history of America's mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists' aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource web page (JSTOR, viewed on October 28, 2021)
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- 20th century
Hepatitis -- Treatment -- Research -- United States -- 20th century
Human experimentation in medicine.
Hepatitis.
Human Experimentation
Hepatitis
Hepatitis -- therapy
Biomedical Research
Hepatitis
Human experimentation in medicine
United States
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0300262450
9780300262452