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Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
Loaded on March 15, 1999
by Daniel Burton-Rose
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1999, page 6
Allen M. Hornblum
Filed under:
Reviews,
Medical,
Medical Experiments/Exploitation.
Location:
United States of America.
Routledge, 297 pgs., $25.00
by Daniel Burton-Rose
The ignominious story of U.S. medical experimentation on prisoners is rarely one that makes the history books. Tests using prisoners as human guinea pigs included World War II efforts against cholera, malaria and smallpox. In the Holmesburg county jail in ...
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- Former 'Guinea Pigs' Protest
- No Private Rights Under International Treaties
- Book Review: Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison, by Daniel Burton-Rose
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