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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison : A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Hornblum, Allen M. (Author)
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From the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, inmates of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison were used, in exchange for a few dollars, as guinea pigs in a host of medical experiments. Hornblum paints a disturbing portrait of abuse, moral indifference, and greed, as doctors, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania and prison officials, established the prison as a testing lab.
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- Title Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison : A True Story of Abuse and Exploitation in the Name of Medical Science
- Author Hornblum, Allen M. (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 335
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, New York
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0415923360
- ISBN 9780415923361 / 0415923360
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.06 x 6.09 x 0.74 in (23.01 x 15.47 x 1.88 cm)
- Reading level 1520
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Library of Congress subjects Human experimentation in medicine -, Holmesburg Prison
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98043691
- Dewey Decimal Code 174.28
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