Subjected to Science

<p><b>The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period before Tuskegee--from 1890 to 1940</b></p><p>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 <i>Subjected to Science</i> Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the earlier period from 1890 to 1940.</p><p>Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments--benign and otherwise--conducted on both healthy and unhealthy men women and children including the yellow fever experiments (which ultimately became the subject of a Broadway play and Hollywood film) Udo Wile's dental drill experiments on insane patients and Hideyo Noguchi's syphilis experiments which involved injecting a number of healthy children and adults with the syphilis germ luetin. </p>