Contested medicine : cancer research and the military / Gerald Kutcher.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226465333
- 0226465330
- 9780226465319
- 0226465314
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Cancer -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Medicine, Military -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Human Experimentation -- ethics
- Neoplasms -- radiotherapy
- Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics
- Military Medicine -- history
- Whole-Body Irradiation -- history
- Cancer -- Recherche -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Expérimentation humaine en médecine -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Études cliniques -- Aspect moral -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Rayonnement -- Effets physiologiques -- Recherche -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médecine militaire -- Recherche -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer
- Cancer -- Research
- Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Human experimentation in medicine
- Medicine, Military -- Research
- Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Research
- United States
- Klinisches Experiment
- Krebs Medizin
- Medizinische Ethik
- Militärmedizin
- Strahlentherapie
- Cancer -- forskning -- historia -- Förenta staterna -- 1900-talet
- USA
- 1900-1999
- 362.196/9940072 22
- RC267 .K88 2009eb
- 2009 E-626
- QZ 269
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
Cancer clinical trials -- The production of trustworthy knowledge -- Military medicine and cancer therapy -- Cancer patients as proxy soldiers -- A cancer patient's story -- Peer review -- Public disclosure -- Ethical judgment.
In the 1960s University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. But, under contract with the Department of Defense, Saenger also used those same patients as proxies for soldiers to answer questions about combat effectiveness on a nuclear battlefield. Using the Saenger case as a means to reconsider cold war medical trials, Contested Medicine examines the inherent tensions at the heart of clinical studies of the time. Emphasizing the deeply intertwined and mutually.
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