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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison : A True Story of Abuse
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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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Routledge, 1999. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches.
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At a time of increased interest and renewed shock over the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Acres of Skin sheds light on yet another dark episode of American medical history. In this disturbing expose, Allen M. Hornblum tells the story of Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison.

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They marched six of us, three blacks an three whites, all the same age, late twenties-early thirties, into this one room of the trailer.

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Allen M. Hornblum teaches Urban Studies at Temple University. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Prison System and as the Chief of Staff of Philadelphia's Sheriff's Office.