The Uses of Humans in Experiment

Perspectives from the 17th to the 20th Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-28670-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 95, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

Scientific experimentation with humans has a long history. Combining elements of history of science with history of medicine, The Uses of Humans in Experiment illustrates how humans have grappled with issues of consent, and how scientists have balanced experience with empiricism to achieve insights for scientific as well as clinical progress. The modern incarnation of ethics has often been considered a product of the second half of the twentieth century, as enshrined in international laws and codes, but these authors remind us that this territory has long been debated, considered, and revisited as a fundamental part of the scientific enterprise that privileges humans as ideal subjects for advancing research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dyck, Erika

Stewart, Larry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The Hermphrodite of Charing Cross

2 Galvanic Humans

Rob Iliffe

3 The Subject as Instrument: Galvanic Experiments, Organic Apparatus and Problems of Calibration

Joan Steigerwald

4 Shocking Subjects: Human Experiments and the Material Culture of Medical Electricity in Eighteenth-Century England

Paola Bertucci

5 Pneumatic Chemistry, Self-Experimentation and the Burden of Revolution, 1780–1805

Larry Stewart

6 Food Fights: Human Experiments in Late Nineteenth-Century Nutrition Physiology

Elizabeth Neswald

7 Experimenting with Radium Therapy: In the Laboratory & the Clinic

Katherine Zwicker

8 Anthropometry, Race, and Eugenic Research: “Measurements of Growing Negro Children”

Paul A. Lombardo

9 Nazi Human Experiments: The Victims’ Perspective and the Post-Second World War Discourse

Paul Weindling

10 A Eugenics Experiment: Sterilization, Hyperactivity and Degeneration

Erika Dyck

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Dyck is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the author of Psychedelic Psychiatry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and Facing Eugenics (University of Toronto Press, 2013).

Larry Stewart is Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is currently writing a study of experiment during the Enlightenment and the first industrial revolution. He has recently edited, with Bernie Lightman and Gordon McOuat, Circulating Knowledge, East and West (Brill, 2013), and is currently completing, with Trevor Levere and Hugh Torrens, The Democratic Vision of Thomas Beddoes; Science, Medicine and Reform.