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Author Kutcher, Gerald.

Title Contested medicine : cancer research and the military / Gerald Kutcher.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Cancer -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Cancer -- Research.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Human experimentation in medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical trials.
Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Radiation -- Physiological effect -- Research.
Radiation -- Physiological effect.
Medicine, Military -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine, Military -- Research.
Medicine, Military.
Human Experimentation -- ethics.
Neoplasms -- radiotherapy.
Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics.
Military Medicine -- history.
Whole-Body Irradiation -- history.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Kutcher, Gerald. Contested medicine. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2009 9780226465319 0226465314 (DLC) 2008024075 (OCoLC)230848039
ISBN 9780226465333 (electronic book)
0226465330 (electronic book)
9780226465319 (Cloth)
0226465314 (Cloth)
Standard No. 9786612239700

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