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Author Hornblum, Allen M.

Title Acres of skin : human experiments at Holmesburg Prison : a story of abuse and exploitation in the name of medical science / Allen M. Hornblum.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  174.28 H78    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  174.28 H814A    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-284) and index.
Contents The subjects, the doctors, and the experiments. "The money was good and the money was easy." / Inmates recall life and experiments at Holmesburg Prison -- "It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field." / Dr. Albert M. Kilgman enters Holmesburg -- Twentieth-century American penal experimentation. "They're dropping like flies out here." / History of U.S. prisoner experimentation -- Cruel and unusual experiments. "The walls seemed to be breathing." / The Army tests chemical warfare agents
"I am not part of the program." / Radioactive isotopes are introduced -- "Danger! This material is extremely toxic." / The dioxin experiments -- The end of experimentation at Holmesburg. "Where are we going to do these things now?" / The slow demise of inmate experimentation -- "Retin-A's birthplace was at Holmesburg Prison." / The discovery of Retin-A -- "A conspiracy of silence." / Conclusion.
Subject Holmesburg Prison.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Prisoners -- Medical care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Convict labor -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dermatology -- Research -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Holmesburg Prison.
Dermatology -- Philadelphia.
Human Experimentation -- Philadelphia.
Prisons -- Philadelphia.
ISBN 0415919908 alkaline paper
9780415919906 alkaline paper
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