Experiment: A child is deliberately infected with the deadly smallpox disease without his parents' informed consent. Result: The world's first vaccine. Experime

In recent years, increasing concern has been voiced about the nature and extent of human experimentation and its impact on the investigator, subject, science, a

Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of H

During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically frau

Susan Lederer provides the first full-length history of early biomedical research with human subjects. Lederer offers detailed accounts of experiments conducted