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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050		4	_aR853.H8 _bH35 2021
100	1		_aHALPERN, SYDNEY A
245	1	0	_aDANGEROUS MEDICINE : _bthe story behind human experiments with hepatitis
260			_a[S.l.] : _bYALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, _c©2021
264			_c©2021
300			_a288 p:
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
520			_aFrom 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting to discover the basic features of the disease and the viruses causing it, and to develop interventions that would quell recurring outbreaks. Drawing from extensive archival research and in-person interviews, Sydney Halpern traces the hepatitis program from its origins in World War II through its expansion during the initial Cold War years, to its demise in the early 1970s amid an outcry over research abuse. The subjects in hepatitis studies were members of stigmatized groups--conscientious objectors, prison inmates, the mentally ill, and developmentally disabled adults and children. The book reveals how researchers invoked military and scientific imperatives and the rhetoric of a common good to win support for the experiments and access to recruits. Halpern examines the participants' long-term health consequences and raises troubling questions about hazardous human experiments aimed at controlling today's epidemic diseases
650		0	_aHuman experimentation in medicine _zUnited States _y20th century
650		0	_aHepatitis _xTreatment _xResearch _zUnited States _y20th century
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