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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
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Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison Soft cover - 1999 - 1st Edition

by Hornblum, Allen M

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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. Soft cover. Very Good. Medicine Cover has edge wear, creases, minor scratches, small bent/rubbed cover/page corners, rubbed spine. No writing.
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  • Title Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison
  • Author Hornblum, Allen M
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 334
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York
  • Date 1999
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 053817
  • 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
  • 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

From the publisher

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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About the author

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.

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