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Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis

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By (author): Sydney A. Halpern

The untold history of Americas mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjects
 
Sydney Halpern has written a compelling, if unsettling, history of hepatitis research during World War II and the Cold War. It will become a must-read for anyone interested in bioethics and medical history.Susan E. Lederer, author of Subjected to Science and Flesh and Blood
 
From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, and to develop interventions that would quell recurring outbreaks. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-person interviews, Sydney Halpern traces the hepatitis program from its origins in World War II through its expansion during the initial Cold War years, to its demise in the early 1970s amid an outcry over research abuse.
 
The subjects in hepatitis studies were members of stigmatized groupsconscientious objectors, prison inmates, the mentally ill, and developmentally disabled adults and children. The book reveals how researchers invoked military and scientific imperatives and the rhetoric of a common good to win support for the experiments and access to recruits. Halpern examines the participants long-term health consequences and raises troubling questions about hazardous human experiments aimed at controlling todays epidemic diseases. See more
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  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780300259629

About Sydney A. Halpern

Sydney A. Halpern is professor emerita at University of Illinois at Chicago and lecturer in the Program in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University.

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